Motivational Quotes

Anger

Between the anvil and the hammer.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

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.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Bible

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

18.

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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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 is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

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

Edwards, Tryon

22.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Proverb

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

Laurence J. Peter

36.

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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Seneca

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Shakespeare, William