Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

Webster, John

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

11.

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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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Horace

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

Bible

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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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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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.

29.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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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

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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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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

40.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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