Quotes About Anger

Any action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work

almost doesn't matter what black community you go in now, the problems are exactly the same. The kids are angry. The men are shell-shocked. The women are alone and the drugs are everywhere.

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

The gift he had been given was sometimes heavy to bear, the ability always to understand why the other person was as he was. Wounded, yes, but never angry, and there were times when he longed to feel fierce personal anger.

But no, it was not the small single moment which had killed him. It was the anger of all his life here in this house which he himself had built and lived in and hated all his years.

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

You ought to hate him, Yuan! Have you not heard what white men have done to our country, and how they hold us hard as any prisoners with their cruel, unjust treaties?

flexibility often have a weakness in emotional control as well. Their inflexibility often leads them to become angry or anxious when they are confronted with an event they weren't anticipating.

PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.

Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment

think of a time when you were angry, when someone said or did something that you didn't like, a time when you wanted to get even or you wanted to vent. Now, what if you had been able to stop, breathe deeply, and slow the process down? Right on the spot you could connect with natural openness. You could stop, give space, and empower the wolf of patience and courage instead of the wolf of aggression and violence.

The idea isn't to try to get rid of your anger, but to make friends with it, to see it clearly with precision and honesty, and also to see it with gentleness.

In My Stroke of Insight, the brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor's book about her recovery from a massive stroke, she explains the physiological mechanism behind emotion: an emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course.

In My Stroke of Insight, the brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor's book about her recovery from a massive stroke, she explains the physiological mechanism behind emotion: an emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course. One and a half minutes, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does, it's because we've chosen to rekindle it.

I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.