Is anger good or bad? There are many sayings on the subject of anger – few, if any, recommend it.
Before I post on the subject of anger what are your thoughts about it?
Famous quotes and words of wisdom are often a great way to reflect on things.
What do these quotes mean for you?
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way — that is not easy- Aristotle
Don’t let anger become your poison – Nelson Mandela
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding - Mahatma Gandhi
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools – Albert Einstein
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him - Booker T. Washington
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow – Chinese Proverb
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 – Gautama Buddha
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control - Pearl Buck
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret – Ambrose Bierce
No person is important enough to make me angry – Thomas Carlyle
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? – Sydney Harris
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves- C. S Lewis
Anger is not only inevitable, it is necessary. Its absence means indifference, the most disastrous of all human failings – Arthur Ponsonby
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves – Gautama Buddha
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved – Marcus Antonius
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear – Joan Rivers
When we're hurt, there are two ways to think. We can think in a way that makes us angrier and want to retaliate. Or we can try to calm ourselves, touch our compassion and understanding, and give ourselves a peaceful mind. This way helps us see that the other person also suffers, and then our anger will dissipate – Thich Nhat Hanh
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness – Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him angry – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
He who angers you controls you – Elizabeth Kenny
“As I walked out of the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hated behind, I’d still be in prison“ Nelson Mandela
To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves – Alexander Pope
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