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Quotes About Anger

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
~ Jack Kornfield
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.
~ Lynn G. Robbins
Don't lose your temper; use it.
~ Dolly Parton
Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.
~ Thomas Boswell
Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
~ Herbert Hoover
I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
~ Alice Childress
The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.
~ Martin Scorsese
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.
~ Penelope Gilliatt
What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.
~ Erick Erickson
Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.
~ Daniel Pearce
I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.
~ Zach Galifianakis
His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
~ Edward Albert
If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.
~ Adam Yauch
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
~ Nelson Mandela
Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.
~ Dalai Lama
Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues.
~ Justin Somper
To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.
~ ElRay L. Christiansen
Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.
~ Dalai Lama
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
~ Virgil
You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.
~ Rajneesh
Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.
~ Alan Alda