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

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

Proverb, Malabar

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shenstone, William

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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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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

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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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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bible

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

24.

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

Bible

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

30.

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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

33.

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

34.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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