Don't Be Angry...Be Brilliant!

I think it's safe to assume that we all get angry sometimes. Anger can consume us, before we are even truly aware of what's happening. At the time yelling seems like the right thing to do, but most of the time we only end up regretting everything we said. Ironically, we become angry with ourselves for being so angry.

Are you feeling angry today? Let the wise words of Confucious, Benjamin Franklin and a few others put your anger into perspective.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius

The wind of anger blows out the lamp 

of intelligence.
Anonymous

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
Benjamin Franklin

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Elizabeth I

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
Japanese Proverb

Never answer a letter while you are angry.
Chinese Proverb

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Christian D. Larsen, from The Optimist Creed

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
James Whitcomb Riley

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

He who angers you enslaves you.
Anon

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

Don’t be angry…be brilliant!