Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Magnus, Saint Albertus

Best Quotes about Anger

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Boyes, John F.

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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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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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

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bible

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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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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

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Churchill, Winston

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