Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Anger

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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

Hull, Bobby

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

12.

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

13.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

14.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

15.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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

18.

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

19.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

30.

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

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

33.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

34.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

39.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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