Motivational Quotes

Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Russell, Bertrand

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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.

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

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

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Buddha

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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]

Bible

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

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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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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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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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.

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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 and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plato

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

46.

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

Mario Puzo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Gracian, Baltasar