Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Baldwin, James

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

Buddha

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

Edwards, Tryon

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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

Horace

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

11.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

12.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

13.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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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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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

21.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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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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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Hull, Bobby

28.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

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

Bible

30.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

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

Emily Dickinson

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

40.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

Laurence J. Peter

43.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

45.

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.

46.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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.

48.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

49.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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.