Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Emily Dickinson

12.

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

Secker, Thomas

13.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

21.

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.

22.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

23.

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

Ellis, Havelock

24.

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

25.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

26.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

27.

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

Freud, Sigmund

28.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

29.

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

Floyd, Pink

30.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

31.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

34.

The best answer to anger is silence.

35.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

36.

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

Ruskin, John

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

43.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

44.

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

Mario Puzo

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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