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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

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.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Hull, Bobby

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Buddha

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.

15.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

16.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

17.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

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

Wallenda, Karl

20.

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

21.

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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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Henry Ward Beecher

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

31.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Horace

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

42.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

45.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

47.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.