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

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

Bible

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Freud, Sigmund

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Emily Dickinson

12.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Proverb, Malabar

15.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Hull, Bobby

19.

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

20.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

21.

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

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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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

27.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

28.

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

29.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

36.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

Renard, Jules

40.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

The best answer to anger is silence.

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

44.

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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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.

47.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

48.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

49.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

50.

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

Shakespeare, William