Motivational Quotes

Anger

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

10.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

11.

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

28.

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

Edwards, Tryon

29.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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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.

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.

38.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Freud, Sigmund

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Maxim, Samurai

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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

49.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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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