Anger Quotes

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

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.

Anger should never be an overnight guest.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

Anger is short-lived madness.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.

Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.

Anger makes us all stupid.

Darkness... When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.