Quotes About Anger

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

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.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

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.

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

Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.