Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

2.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

3.

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

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

8.

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

Pope, Alexander

9.

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

Mario Puzo

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

13.

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

Bible

14.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Emily Dickinson

19.

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

20.

The best answer to anger is silence.

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

26.

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.

27.

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

Buddha

28.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Sarnoff, David

31.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

32.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

35.

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

36.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

37.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

39.

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

Ellis, Havelock

40.

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

Laurence J. Peter

41.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

42.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

43.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

44.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

45.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

47.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

49.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

50.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo