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

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

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

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

Bible

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Ellis, Havelock

10.

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

11.

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

Mizner, Wilson

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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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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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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.

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Wallenda, Karl

26.

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

Webster, John

27.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

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

Greer, Germaine

29.

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

Lucan, F. L.

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

32.

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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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

34.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

38.

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

39.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

40.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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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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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

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.

45.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

46.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Plato

48.

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

49.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Ruskin, John