Motivational Quotes

Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Hull, Bobby

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

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

Sarnoff, David

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Freud, Sigmund

10.

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

11.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

12.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

14.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

17.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Halifax, Edward F.

20.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

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

22.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Secker, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

28.

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

Ruskin, John

29.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

32.

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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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.

34.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

35.

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

Webster, John

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

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

40.

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

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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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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

43.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

44.

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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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

47.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.