Motivational Quotes

Anger

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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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Hugo, Victor

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hull, Bobby

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bible

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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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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

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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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, 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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

31.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

38.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Renard, Jules

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Akhenaton

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Shenstone, William

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden