Motivational Quotes

Anger

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Ruskin, John

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

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Bible

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

17.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

18.

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

Mckay, David O.

20.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

21.

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.

22.

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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The best answer to anger is silence.

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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

28.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

29.

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

30.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

31.

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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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

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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

34.

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

Plato

35.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

36.

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

Floyd, Pink

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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 cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

48.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

49.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

50.

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