Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Greg Evans

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Freud, Sigmund

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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 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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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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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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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.

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

Renard, Jules

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

19.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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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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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Pope, Alexander

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Mario Puzo

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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

40.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

41.

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

Proverb

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

44.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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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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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De