Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Shenstone, William

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Buddha

13.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Floyd, Pink

16.

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

17.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

21.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

25.

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

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

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

Secker, Thomas

29.

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

Akhenaton

30.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

34.

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

Maxim, Samurai

35.

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

Sarnoff, David

36.

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

Mario Puzo

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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

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

Bible

39.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

40.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

42.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

44.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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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

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.