Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Proverb

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

Mario Puzo

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

Dyer, Wayne

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Epictetus

10.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

15.

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

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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.

17.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

18.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

20.

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

22.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

25.

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

Ellis, Havelock

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Greg Evans

28.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

29.

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

Laurence J. Peter

30.

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

31.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

32.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

33.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

35.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

38.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

49.

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

Buddha

50.

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.