Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

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.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Epictetus

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

10.

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.

11.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

12.

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

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.

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

15.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

16.

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.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

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.

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

21.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

22.

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

Proverb, Malabar

23.

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

24.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

25.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

31.

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

32.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

33.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

35.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

36.

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

Boyes, John F.

39.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

45.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

46.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

47.

When the danger is past God is cheated.