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

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

Proverb, Malabar

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.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sarnoff, David

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Thurber, James

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Floyd, Pink

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

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

Ruskin, John

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Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Plato

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

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

Mario Puzo

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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

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

Baldwin, James