Anger Quotes

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

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

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

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

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

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

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

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.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

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

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Anger is a short madness.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I'm too mature to be angry.

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

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

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

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

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

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.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

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.

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.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

You 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.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.