Motivational Quotes

Anger

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Anger

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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Bible

10.

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.

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Baldwin, James

16.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

18.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

19.

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

Joubert, Joseph

20.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

Renard, Jules

23.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

24.

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

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

27.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

28.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

29.

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

30.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

31.

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

Seneca

32.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Halifax, Edward F.

39.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

40.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

Horace

43.

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

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

Proverb

45.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

46.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

47.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

48.

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.

49.

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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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