Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

George, David Lloyd

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 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

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Emily Dickinson

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Ruskin, John

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Horace

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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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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Wallenda, Karl

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre