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20 Feb 2014

QUOTE TODAY: Anger


Angry people are not always wise. -Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. - Maya Angelou

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuse. - William Arthur Ward

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. - Mark Twain 

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -Leo Buscaglia

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

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.- Benjamin Franklin


People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. - Louis L'Amour

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade. Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. -Sigmund Freud

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. -Aristotle

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. - Plato

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