Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Wallenda, Karl

2.

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

Dickinson, Emily

3.

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

Bacon, Francis

4.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

5.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

6.

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

7.

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

Emily Dickinson

8.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

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

Bible

10.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

11.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

13.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

14.

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

15.

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

George, David Lloyd

16.

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.

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Shenstone, William

21.

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

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

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

Buddha

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

32.

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

Plato

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

35.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

36.

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

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

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

40.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

42.

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

43.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

44.

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

45.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

46.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

47.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

Bible

50.

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