Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Schuller, Robert H.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

10.

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

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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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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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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.

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

18.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

19.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Hull, Bobby

21.

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

Akhenaton

22.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

24.

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

Bible

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

26.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

32.

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

Quarles, Francis

33.

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

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

Laurence J. Peter

35.

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

Wallenda, Karl

36.

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

37.

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

Tupper, Martin

39.

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

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George, David Lloyd

43.

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

Emily Dickinson

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

45.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

46.

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

Sarnoff, David

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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