Motivational Quotes

Anger

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

11.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

12.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Akhenaton

14.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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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

16.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Francis De Sales, St.

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Buddha

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Hull, Bobby

37.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

38.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

39.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Greg Evans

43.

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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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

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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

47.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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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

50.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De