Motivational Quotes

Anger

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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.

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.

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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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

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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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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

14.

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

Buddha

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

Mckay, David O.

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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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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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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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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

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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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.

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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

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

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