Anger Quotes

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

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.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

We boil at different degrees.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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.

He who angers you conquers you.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

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

I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

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.

Get mad, then get over it.

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.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

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

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

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

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

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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

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

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

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

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

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 and is not easy.

Anger is a short madness.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

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

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

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

My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

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

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