Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Freud, Sigmund

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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.

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Bible

10.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

12.

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

Buddha

13.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

14.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

17.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

18.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

19.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

20.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

21.

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

22.

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

Edwards, Tryon

23.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

30.

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

Hull, Bobby

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Lucan, F. L.

42.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

44.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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.

46.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

47.

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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