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Quotes About Anger

Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
~ William Shakespeare
Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
~ Mark McCormack
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
~ Dalai Lama
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
~ C. S. Lewis
Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.
~ Dalai Lama
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
No person is important enough to make me angry.
~ Thomas Carlyle
If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.
~ Harriet Lerner
If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.
~ Alvin Rosenfeld
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.
~ Frederick Lenz
What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.
~ Frederick Lenz
I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
~ Alex Ferguson
Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind
~ Dalai Lama
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Hey, mister, I don't think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.
~ Vinita Kinra
Her face a mask of fury and determination.
~ Jody Hedlund, Forever Safe
If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision.
~ Robyn Wheeler, Born Mad
You know what makes me the maddest?" Mark seemed confused and somewhat sullen. He took out his pipe and began to pack it from a leather pouch. "That I have to act like a criminal.
~ James Webb
Mark had obviously contemplated it and rejected it. He was livid. "And why should I go to jail? Am I a criminal? Have I hurt anyone
~ James Webb
Am I bad?" He puffed angrily on his pipe. "Why does the law create such absurdities?" He snorted. "The law. The law is an ass. Someone famous said that, once. Dickens, I think." He looked up to Goodrich. "And it is. It doesn't respond anymore. It's a straitjacket. What kind of coercion is it when your alternatives are to kill or to go to jail?
~ James Webb