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

Seneca

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Lucan, F. L.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

10.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

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

12.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

15.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

Hull, Bobby

17.

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

Proverb

18.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

19.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

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

Bible

21.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Sarnoff, David

24.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

25.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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.

27.

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

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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

29.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

33.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

41.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

42.

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

43.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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