Motivational Quotes

Anger

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Harris, Sidney J.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Epictetus

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Edwards, Tryon

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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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.

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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

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

Horace

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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

36.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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

Mario Puzo

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

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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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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

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