Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Edwards, Tryon

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Proverb

12.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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

Plato

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

24.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb

29.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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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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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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

44.

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

45.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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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

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

Greg Evans

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

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