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

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Churchill, Winston

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Horace

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

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

12.

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

Hull, Bobby

13.

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

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

19.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

25.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

26.

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

27.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

29.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

31.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

32.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Secker, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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

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