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

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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

2.

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

Bible

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

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

Buddha

6.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

7.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

8.

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

9.

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

Wallenda, Karl

10.

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

11.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

17.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

19.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

20.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

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

25.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

27.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

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

30.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Akhenaton

32.

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

Webster, John

33.

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.

34.

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

Seneca

35.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

36.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

37.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

38.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

40.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

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

Maxim, Samurai

42.

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

43.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

Lucan, F. L.

46.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

47.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

48.

The best answer to anger is silence.

49.

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

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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.