Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emily Dickinson

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

16.

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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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Greg Evans

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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 is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Churchill, Winston

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

I Ching

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Floyd, Pink

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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