Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Wallenda, Karl

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

10.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

11.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Floyd, Pink

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Bible

28.

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

Mario Puzo

29.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Bible

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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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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

39.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

40.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

48.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

49.

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 wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo