Quotes about anger
anger years trying
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. Louisa May Alcott
anger acceptance successful
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be. Peter McWilliams
anger emotional long
Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.
anger guilt resentment
Guilt 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.
anger proportion blur
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. Pete Townshend
anger men self
Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger. Plutarch
anger men angry-man
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
anger wrath fire
For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
anger doors mind
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
anger battle resistance
When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
anger men savages
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
anger self
Anger is self-immolation. Phillips Brooks
anger america victory
I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory. Mickey Kaus
anger way raised
I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised. Patrick Swayze
anger hands weak
Anger assists hands however weak. Ovid
anger guitar finding-the-one
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money. Paul McCartney
anger rap thinking
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. John F. Kerry
anger love-is worthy
Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger. John Denham
anger bad-relationship poison
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. Joyce Brothers
anger thinking mad
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. Jules Renard
anger hobbies enjoy
I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have. Laurell K. Hamilton
anger emotional feelings
Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion. L. Lionel Kendrick
anger pride envy
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares. John Chancellor
anger loss rely-upon
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused. Luke Ford
anger meanness
Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned. Malcolm Forbes
anger mean men
It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.
anger interesting understanding
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mahatma Gandhi
anger abuse betrayed
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 men may
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. Gilbert K. Chesterton
anger party fury
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes.
anger fighting names
People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.
anger divine discontent
Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.
anger men elephants
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth. John Dryden