Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Thurber, James

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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.

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

10.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

11.

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

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

Greer, Germaine

13.

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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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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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

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

George, David Lloyd

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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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.

21.

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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

24.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

25.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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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

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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]

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38.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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

40.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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.

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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.

47.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

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