Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

10.

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

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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.

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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

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

Thurber, James

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Proverb

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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

31.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

32.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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 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

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

40.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Mario Puzo

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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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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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