Quotes about Anger
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open hand held out and waiting. For we meet by one or the other.
He who angers you conquers you.
My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. [Character of Marmee in Little Women]
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open hand held out and waiting. For we meet by one or the other.
He who angers you conquers you.
My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. [Character of Marmee in Little Women]
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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.
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
He who angers you conquers you.
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.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Get mad, then get over it.
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.