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

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

Quarles, Francis

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Horace

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bible

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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

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

Greg Evans

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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