Motivational Quotes

Anger

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Bible

3.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

4.

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

Proverb

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

9.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

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

Akhenaton

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

16.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

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

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Laurence J. Peter

21.

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

22.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

23.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

24.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

30.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

31.

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

32.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Boyes, John F.

35.

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

Ellis, Havelock

36.

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.

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Shenstone, William

39.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

40.

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

Secker, Thomas

41.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Proverb

44.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

45.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

46.

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.

47.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

48.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

49.

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

50.

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