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Anger Quotes

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

Wayne Dyer, American Psychologist

Anger, Nothing, Wrong

"To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better."

Tryon Edwards, American Theologian

"We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

Anger, Nature, Abuse, Humannature

"I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry."

Maxine Waters, American Politician

Anger, Right, Want, Wrong

"My hatred is diamond-hard."

Jim Goad, Australian Author

"Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger."

Fran Drescher, American Actress

"The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger."

Nigel Mansell, British Athlete

Anger, Car, Time, Commitment

"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves."

John Dryden, English Poet

"When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely."

Richard Savage, English Poet

Anger, Thought, Action, Man

"Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it."

Robert South, English Clergyman

"I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended."

Christopher Darden, American Lawyer

Anger, Months, Writing

"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity."

Mary Garden, Scottish Soprano

Anger, Creativity, Emotion, Productivity

"Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury."

Francis Quarles, English Poet

Anger, Patience

"I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger."

Alan Alda, American Actor

"Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be."

Benjamin Spock, American Scientist

Anger, Children, Sense, Senses

"Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously."

Marie de France, French Poet

"Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Anger, Self, Control, Peace

"Anger travels faster, conscience is slower! Angers goes ahead to destroy long before conscience lately arrives to regret! Don't try to keep anger just for a while... It destroys before negotiations!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Anger, Conscience, Regret, Destruction

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Anger, Arrogance, Merit

"Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused."

Luke Ford, Australian Writer

Anger, Life, People, Acting

"If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him."

Howard Staunton, English Celebrity

Anger, Decision, Quitting, Umpire

"Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?"

Tony Greig, South African Athlete

Anger, People, Saying

"Anger cannot be dishonest."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."

Bede Jarrett, English Writer

Anger, Evil, Needs, World

"Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness."

Naomi Campbell, British Model

Anger, Insecurity, Loneliness, Self

"Your anger is a gift."

Zack de la Rocha, American Musician

"Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined."

Tom Lantos, American Diplomat

Anger, Faith, Government, Financial

"Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation."

Martha Beck, American Author

Anger, Children, Grief, Guilt

"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, Algerian Saint

Anger, Love, Fear, Jealousy

"My passion and energy get mistaken for anger."

Gary Oldman, English Actor

Anger, Energy, Passion

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Anger, Fear, Awareness

"Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one."

Lord Halifax, British Politician

Anger, Argument

"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

G. M. Trevelyan, English Historian

Anger, Control, Madness, Passion

"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Anger, Truth, Controversy

"If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Anger, Performance, Success, Change

"Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge."

George William Curtis, American Author

Anger, Men, Income, Luxury

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either."

Wayne Dyer, American Psychologist

Anger, Power, Time, Laughter

"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, American Novelist

Anger, Faith, God, Moments

"The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour."

Obie Trice, American Musician

Anger, Management

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Anger, Man, Reason

"Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other."

Richard Savage, English Poet

"You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Anger, Losing, Opponents

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

Anger, Enemies, Intolerance, Understanding

"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

"I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people."

Joe Lieberman, American Politician

Anger, Experience, People, Values

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."

Lee Iacocca, American Businessman

Anger, Positive, Adversity, Energy

"Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don't apply it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Anger, Success, Failure, Emotions

"Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old."

Rowan Williams, English Theologian

Anger, Time, Fear, Culture

"Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished."

Bruce Nauman, American Sculptor

Anger, Work, Frustration

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