Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Anger

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

19.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

21.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]