Anger Quotes

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

~ David D. Burns

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

~ Charles Bronson

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

~ James Thurber

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

~ Edward Albert

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

~ Wayne Dyer

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

~ Ricky Williams

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

~ Wayne Dyer

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

~ Martha Beck

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

~ Marilyn Manson

A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

~ Hamza Yusuf

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

~ Buddha

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

~ Confucius

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

~ Jane Goodall

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

~ Terry Brooks

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

I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.

~ Thandie Newton

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

~ Indra Nooyi

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.

~ Erin Gruwell

Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.

~ Robert Reich

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

~ Julian Baggini

I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.

~ Albert Brooks

What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?

~ Mike Barnicle

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

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

~ Mahavira

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

~ Hannah More

Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.

~ Karen Salmansohn

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

~ Alice Miller

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

~ Gary Zukav

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

~ John Mcafee

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

~ George Eliot

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

I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

~ Nadine Velazquez

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

~ James Mcgreevey

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

~ Sallust

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

~ Sallust

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

~ Yoko Ono

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

~ Dalai Lama