Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

2.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

3.

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

Emily Dickinson

4.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

5.

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

Bacon, Francis

6.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

15.

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

16.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

17.

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

Buddha

18.

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

Renard, Jules

19.

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

Secker, Thomas

20.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Plato

23.

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

24.

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

25.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

The best answer to anger is silence.

27.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

28.

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

Bible

29.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

30.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Freud, Sigmund

32.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

40.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

41.

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.

42.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

43.

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

Bible

44.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

48.

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

Ellis, Havelock

49.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

50.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.