Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Plato

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Hugo, Victor

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

15.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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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

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Mizner, Wilson

25.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

26.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

28.

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

Wallenda, Karl

29.

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

30.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

31.

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 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

33.

The best answer to anger is silence.

34.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

35.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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.

38.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Secker, Thomas

45.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

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 will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha