Keeping Your Cool
"The degree of one’s emotion varies
inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts — the less you know, the hotter
you get."
Bertrand Russell
"When anger rises, think of the consequences."
Confucius
"Keep cool; anger is not an argument."
Daniel Webster
"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit."
Epictetus
"Anger makes us all stupid."
Johanna Spyri
Wisdom Calls for Maturity,
Not Anger
"Wise men turn away anger."
Proverbs 29:8 NASB
"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: "I used to
be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth
day." When you reach thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the
gods."
Epictetus
"The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of
ill-temper."
Nietzsche
"Anger tortures itself."
Publilius Syrus
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace
of mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience Solves Many
Problems; Anger Solves Nothing
"He who angers you conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny
"To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart. Anger
is only one letter short of danger."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel
bitter. A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victim."
Charles Buxton
"Mistrust anger."
Ben Hecht
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
St. Augustine
And Finally .
. .
"No person is important enough to make me
angry."
Carlos Castaneda
"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
"The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say
something or bust."
Josh Billings
"Speak when you're angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever
regret."
Laurence Peter
