Motivational Quotes

Anger

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Quincey, Thomas De

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

10.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

11.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

12.

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

Bible

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

Henry Ward Beecher

14.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Mckay, David O.

16.

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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pope, Alexander

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Greg Evans

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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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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

35.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

39.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.