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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Proverb

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

11.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

14.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Plato

22.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Akhenaton

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

28.

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

29.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

30.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

31.

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

32.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

36.

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

37.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

38.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

39.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

42.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bible

45.

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

Seneca

47.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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