Motivational Quotes

Anger

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

12.

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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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

The best answer to anger is silence.

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Bible

32.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

41.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius