Motivational Quotes

Anger

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Secker, Thomas

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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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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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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.

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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

Buddha

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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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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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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

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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

Bible

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.