Anger Quotes - Page 18

• Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blow, Thinking, Waiting

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• Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hatred, World, Good Work

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2639, Manonmani Publishers

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• You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Archer, Arrows, May

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

  Paul A. Offit

  Children, Parent, Levels

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• Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Emotional, Blow, Self

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• The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Doe, He Man

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

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

  Bodhidharma

  Passion, Ignorant Masses, Evil

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• I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

  Lawrence James

  Regret, Hate, Men

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• He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

  David O. McKay

  Evil, Hatred, Bitterness

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• 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.

  Susan Howatch

  Done, Damage, Rage

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• You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

  Sophocles

  Regret, Hate, Yield

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• Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Thinking, Rage, Thunderstorm

  Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

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• He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Degrees, Doe, Shrews

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.455

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• Don't just get mad, try a little creative revenge ... Creative revenge ... allows you to get even - to extract some satisfactory justice - when you are wronged, but lets you do it with a sense of humor, not boiling malice.

  Sonia Friedman

  Revenge, Justice, Mad

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• Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.

  Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

  Determination, Checks

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• Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Water, Benefits, Mills

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• Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hate, Real, Enemy

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• Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.

  Novak Djokovic

  Long, Proud, Sometimes

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• Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion.

  James Hollis

  Fashion, Expression, Denial

  James Hollis (2008). “Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves”, p.48, Penguin

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• Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.

  James Vila Blake

  Passion, Fire, Clouds

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• Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Passion, Revealing

  Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

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• anger is more productive than fear.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Productive

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• To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another.

  Pope Agapetus I

  Faults, Rage, Abandon

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• move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

  Amelia Barr

  Moving, Sea, Tempest

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.57, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Ignorance, Views, Greed

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