Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Hull, Bobby

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ruskin, John

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Bible

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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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

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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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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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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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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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 as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

Renard, Jules

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Plato

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh