Anger Quotes

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller

Business, Down, Cry

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward

Wise, Focus, Problems

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine

Love, Fear, Jealousy

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
Wayne Dyer

Nothing, Wrong, Provided

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
Edward Abbey

Love, Nothing, Cares

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Elie Wiesel

Faith, God, Lost

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Terry Brooks

Travel, Hurt, Lost

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

Mind, Greed, Three

Anger cannot be dishonest.
Marcus Aurelius

Cannot, Dishonest

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
Keira Knightley

Jealousy, Fake, Easy

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Alice Duer Miller

Forgiveness, Genuine, Deny

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Revenge, Often, Concealed

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Harm, Acid, Vessel

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg

Nothing, Against, Hurts

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton

Love, Change, Hope

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Thomas Paine

Greatest, Delay, Remedy

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono

Sad, Pain, Sadness

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Greatest, Delay, Remedy

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themselves, Fall, Ruins

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams

Others, Ourselves, Guilt

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette

Sad, Happiness, Fear

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Yoko Ono

Positive, Angry, Thoughts

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
Samuel L. Jackson

Respect, Angry, Pretty

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

Heart, Past, Less

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
Colin Powell

Political, Enough, Start

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