Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Proverb

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

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

10.

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.

11.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Horace

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Bible

21.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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

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

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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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

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.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Webster, John

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

36.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

Edwards, Tryon

41.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Plato

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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.

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