Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

11.

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

12.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

14.

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 most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

16.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

17.

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.

18.

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

Maxim, Samurai

19.

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

Wallenda, Karl

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

22.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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.

24.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

25.

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

Plato

26.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

31.

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

Laurence J. Peter

32.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

40.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

41.

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

Secker, Thomas

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

44.

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

Sarnoff, David

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre