Sidney Poitier Quotes

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

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

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.

I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'

I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.

I find it really easy to be aggressive, I find it easy to cry.

There's times I blow my gasket. One thing I learned is I don't hold any grudges.

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.

Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

You cannot sedate all the things you hate.

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

One thing I'm recognizing more and more in myself - and looking to change - is going down more of a self-destructive path when I feel pain. I'm trying to avoid that as much as possible. That is an impulse, when I feel out of control.

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.

Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Hate heals, you should try it sometime.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

We all get frustrated and we all get angry, especially being young. We're happy so quickly, we're mad so quickly, and everything is just flowing so fast.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.

I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.