Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb, Malabar

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Proverb

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Secker, Thomas

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Mckay, David O.

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Hull, Bobby

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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]

Bible

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.