Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

11.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Mckay, David O.

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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

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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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

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Webster, John

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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

28.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

36.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Proverb, Malabar

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mario Puzo