Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Bacon, Francis

2.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

Churchill, Winston

5.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

6.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

7.

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.

8.

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.

9.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb

14.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

Edwards, Tryon

17.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

18.

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.

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

28.

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

Baldwin, James

29.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

Mario Puzo

33.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

34.

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

Sarnoff, David

35.

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

Secker, Thomas

36.

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

37.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

38.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

39.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

40.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

41.

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

42.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

45.

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

46.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Bierce, Ambrose