Best 2450 quotes in «anger quotes» category

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride.

The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

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

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

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

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made us impervious to outside attacks. But when we boil inside, destruction waits upon us.

The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.

There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.