Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

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

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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

Bible

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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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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

29.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

31.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

40.

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

Thurber, James

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose