Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Hull, Bobby

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

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

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

Bible

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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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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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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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

27.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Plato

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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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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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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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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.

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

Floyd, Pink

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Horace

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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