Motivational Quotes

Anger

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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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Plato

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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Thurber, James

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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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

11.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Bible

24.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Bible

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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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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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

Proverb

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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

Secker, Thomas

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Seneca

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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