Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Wallenda, Karl

Best Quotes about Anger

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

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

10.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

11.

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

Buddha

12.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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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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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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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

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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

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

30.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Seneca

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

Bible

39.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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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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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dyer, Wayne