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

1.

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

Boyes, John F.

2.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

Lucan, F. L.

7.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

8.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Buddha

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

13.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Secker, Thomas

16.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

17.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

18.

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

Proverb

19.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

20.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

21.

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

22.

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

Emily Dickinson

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

26.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Bible

28.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

31.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

32.

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

33.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

35.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

38.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Plato

41.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

42.

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

Maxim, Samurai

43.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

44.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

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

47.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

48.

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