Anger - Quotes & Sayings
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. WheatleyWhile seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
Douglas HortonBitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya AngelouA man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis BaconIt is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur WardSometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
Ang LeeViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac AsimovWhen angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas JeffersonYou must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. NixonThe greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWe boil at different degrees.
Clint EastwoodI have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.
Ellen DeGeneresIf your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
Karen SalmansohnAnger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark TwainFor me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.
Robin WilliamsAnger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Naomi CampbellAnger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
Thich Nhat HanhAnger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green IngersollThere are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
PlatoHe who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth KennyWhen one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
Dylan ThomasAs a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
Dalai LamaBoxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.
Gerry CooneyDepression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
Janet FitchIf you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
Bob MarleyDenial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
Joshua OppenheimerThe dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
John BurroughsHow much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus AureliusAnger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert EinsteinA man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl JungI don't know if I'm ready to know what triggers my anger. I just feel like I figured out on my own how to stay calm, how to enjoy life, how to be happy.
Rolando McClainTake the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.
Tim GunnThe only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
D. H. LawrenceWhen I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin LutherAs much time and effort, emotion, anger, love, joy that you put into another human being, you're not guaranteed to receive that back. And that's OK. That's alright.
LogicGuilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliamsI'm too mature to be angry.
Jesse JacksonWhen you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EpictetusGet mad, then get over it.
Colin PowellGenerally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai LamaSometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.
Theodore Isaac RubinI don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
Keira KnightleyNever do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar GracianI think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
Chris HayesYesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?
Robert KennedyI've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
Ani DiFrancoWars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
ThucydidesAll 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.
Wilson MiznerI think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.
Jennifer PalmieriOne reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.
Julian Baggini