Anger Quotes - Page 8

• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Love, Flames, Barbs

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.66, Delphi Classics

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• Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Offended You

  "Stand on your own two feet" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2017.

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• I understand a fury in your words But not your words.

  William Shakespeare

  Desdemona, Fury

  William Shakespeare (1757). “The Works: Of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical: by Mr. Theobald”, p.314

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• Hatred is settled anger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hate, Hatred

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• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, War, Fighting

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• It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

  Janos Kadar

  Country, Class, Order

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• Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Moving, Acceptance, Evil

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• If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace.
  This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Self, Practice

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

  Emily Dickinson

  Emotion, Fats, Angry Feelings

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1041, Harvard University Press

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• If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Wish, May

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Jealousy, Sight

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860)

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• If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

  Epictetus

  Sacrifice, Emotion, Thirty

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• Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

  Pope Paul VI

  Nests, Stones, Wasps

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• If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, War, Men

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Revenge, Blow

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• Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Running, Spiritual

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.103, Modern Library

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• Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.228, Hamilton Books

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• Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lonely, Envy, Tag

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

  William Penn

  Lasts, Strikes, Strokes

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.145

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• Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Three, Littles

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• Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Men, Weak Man, Oil

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• The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

  Euripides

  Rage, Anger And Bitterness

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• There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Giving, Affection

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1967, Delphi Classics

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• Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Inspiration, People, Temper

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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