Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Buddha

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

10.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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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

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

13.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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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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 best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Akhenaton

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.