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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.
Aristotle384–322 BC
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake1757–1827A Poison Tree (1794), Songs of Experience (1794), A Poison Tree, st. 1In context
- Friendship
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 Buddha501–501 BC
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 Twain1835–1910
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act I, scene 3, line 12.In context
- Fear
I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661Often credited to Benjamin Franklin
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi1917–1984Press conference, New Delhi (October 19, 1971), quoted in “Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders” by Sydney H. Schanberg, The New York Times (October 20, 1971), page 6C.
Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell1937–2021
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Attributed to Russell in Distilled Wisdom (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145
- Facts
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around you in awareness.
RHRoss Hersey
- Fear