Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about 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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

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

10.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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 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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The best answer to anger is silence.

15.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

17.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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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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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

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

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

30.

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

Mario Puzo

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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

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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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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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.