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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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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Renard, Jules

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

George, David Lloyd

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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 nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Thurber, James

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ruskin, John

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Buddha

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson