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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Akhenaton

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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Bible

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Edwards, Tryon

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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