Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bierce, Ambrose

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Angelis, Barbara De

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

11.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

14.

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

Webster, John

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

17.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

18.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Bible

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.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

Plato

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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

35.

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

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lucan, F. L.

38.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

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

40.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

41.

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

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

48.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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