Anger Quotes - Page 39

• In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice his coach had him play one-on-one while the team observed. When he missed an easy shot, he became angry and stomped and whined. The coach walked over to him and said, "You pull a stunt like that again and you'll never play for my team." For the next three years he never lost control again. Years later, as he reflected back on this incident, he realized that the coach had taught him a life-changing principle that day: anger can be controlled.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Basketball, Team, Life Changing

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• How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting for words to express it. The answer came more slowly: No one makes you angry. Anger, like love, is something you choose. Stunned, I sat down in the middle of the field I'd been walking through. I knew I needed to look within myself, let go of my anger and have a quiet talk with God.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Letting Go, Love Is, Like Love

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.92, Anchor

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• As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

  John Climacus

  Children, Long, Parent

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• People are often very frightened of their anger. They feel it will cause them to do something harmful. If you have this fear, create a safe situation where you can express your anger, alone or with a trusted therapist or friend. Allow yourself to talk angrily, shout, hit pillows, whatever you feel like. Once you've done this in a safe environment, you will have released some of the charge, and you can look underneath the anger to find what you need to do to take better care of yourself. Like any emotion, anger is a valuable tool, teaching us who we are and how we feel.

  Shakti Gawain

  Teaching, Safe Environment, People

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• The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, War, Hatred

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• Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness, fearing the loss of something more than we enjoy the experience of having it.

  Jesse D. Jennings

  Loss, Alarms, Purpose

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• Bobby and I were married in 1954 and by now we know that anger does not mean "I don't love you" or "I want a divorce." It means, "I am wounded and in need of love, and I feel safe telling you about it because you are my family." Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.

  Bernie Siegel

  Baby, Love You, Mean

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• Anger is a response that can lead to harm if we don't evaluate what we are upset about. Ask yourself what you are afraid of, as anger is almost always fear in disguise. If we think something or someone threatens us, we feel fear-fear that we are inadequate, that our lives are out of control, that things won't go our way. Then we fight. Find out what you're upset about. We rarely are upset for the reason we think.

  Jennifer James

  Fighting, Thinking, Upset

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Hate, Men

  Aristotle (1924). “The Works of Aristotle”

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• How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Offending, Defense, Causes

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.849, Xist Publishing

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• A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Men, Wrath

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.315

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• One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

  John Ruskin

  Looks, Penguins, Angry

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Always shun whatever may make you angry.

  Publilius Syrus

  May, Angry

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• Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Punishment, Torture

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• A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

  Euripides

  Clever, Men, Matter

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Few men can afford to be angry.

  Augustine Birrell

  Men, Angry

  Edmund Burke, Augustine Birrell (1945). “Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America”

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• I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Sides, Burned, Heretic

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• I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

  Alice Childress

  Mad, Water, Pot

  Alice Childress (2012). “Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life”, p.44, Beacon Press

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• In anger, you look ten years older.

  Hedda Hopper

  Years, Looks, Ten

  Hedda Hopper (1952). “From under my hat”

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• Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

  Harriet Lerner

  Responsibility, Self, Important Relationships

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• Don't let the sun go down on me.

  Elton John

  Forgiveness, Angry Man, Rejection

  Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, 1974

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• Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Batteries, Acid

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.12, Criss Jami

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• As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

  James Vila Blake

  Passion, Management, Weak

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• As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

  James Vila Blake

  Wind, Black, Storm

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• The only one you get even with is yourself.

  Robert Mandel

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