Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Floyd, Pink

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Renard, Jules

20.

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

Emily Dickinson

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

29.

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

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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

Mario Puzo

32.

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.

33.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

35.

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

37.

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

Greg Evans

38.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Wallenda, Karl

42.

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

George, David Lloyd

43.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

45.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

46.

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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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Baldwin, James

49.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich