Motivational Quotes

Anger

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

The best answer to anger is silence.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Epictetus

10.

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

11.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

12.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Sarnoff, David

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When danger approaches, sing to it.