Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Cherie Carter-Scott

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Boyes, John F.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

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

Shakespeare, William

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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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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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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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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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When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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

41.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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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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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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