Motivational Quotes

Anger

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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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Laurence J. Peter

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb

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

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.

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

10.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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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

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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

16.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

22.

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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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

24.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

26.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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

34.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

35.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Proverb

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

40.

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.

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

Mizner, Wilson

43.

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

Horace

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.