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

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Plato

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

10.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

13.

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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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

30.

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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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.

32.

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

Emily Dickinson

34.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

42.

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

Buddha

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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 soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

45.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

46.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Bible

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

Mckay, David O.