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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Akhenaton

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

10.

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

Hull, Bobby

11.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

12.

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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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

15.

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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Maxim, Samurai

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Freud, Sigmund

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Halifax, Edward F.

22.

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

Epictetus

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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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

34.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Fuller, 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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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