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

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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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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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

11.

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.

12.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Edwards, Tryon

24.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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

27.

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

28.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

32.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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.

34.

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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Secker, Thomas

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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

38.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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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]

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

Proverb

43.

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

Horace

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

47.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

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

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