Rage Quotes

"People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."

"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."

"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."

"Hatred is inveterate anger."

"I get angry at a principle, not a person."

"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."

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

"You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate."

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

"Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway."

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."

"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."

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

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

"I get angry about things, then go on and work."

"My father was often angry when I was most like him."

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

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

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."

"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."

"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."

"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."

"Anger cannot be dishonest."

"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."

"He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin."

"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come."

"Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering."

"Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger."

"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."

"For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see."

"Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you."

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

"We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration."

"The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate."

"Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade."

"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."

"Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence."

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."

"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."

"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence."

"The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief."

"Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice."

"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."

"Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath."

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

"My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?"