Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Hull, Bobby

Best Quotes about Anger

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

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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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

19.

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

Sarnoff, David

20.

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

Freud, Sigmund

21.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

22.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

25.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

27.

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

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

31.

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

Hull, Bobby

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Dickinson, Emily

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