Motivational Quotes

Anger

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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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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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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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 forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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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.

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

Webster, John

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Mario Puzo

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton