Anger Quotes - Page 7

• It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  People, Angry

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• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Crazy

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• Anger is a brief lunacy.

  Horace

  Rage, Lunacy

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• The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

  John Chancellor

  Pride, Envy, Lust

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• Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

  Petrarch

  Forgiveness, Peace, Ambition

  "De vita solitaria". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1346.

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• Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

  James Fallows

  Writing, Enemy, Letters

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• Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Wish, Rage

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.37, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Letting Go, Giving

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony

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• We boil at different degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Being Different, Identity

  'Society and Solitude' (1870) 'Eloquence'

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• I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

  Willa Gibbs

  Enemy, Temper, My Friends

  Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”

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• Beware the fury of a patient man.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Christian, Wise

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 1005

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• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hatred, Rage, Grapes

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.125

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• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

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• Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

  Homer

  Men, Honey, Bosoms

  "The Iliad". Epic poem by Homer, c. 750 BC.

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• Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

  Philemon

  Wise, Wells

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• A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

  Francis Bacon

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Men

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Revenge'

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• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  Elie Wiesel

  Faith, Holocaust, Sometimes

  "Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Weisel". www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1986.

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• Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

  Robert Breault

  Life Is Too Short, Long, Grudge

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• Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

  Alice Miller

  Forgiveness, Doe, Faces

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.248, Macmillan

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• He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Strong, Passion, Feelings

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

  Confucius

  Art, Truth, Philosophical

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• A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Men, May

  Spanish Gypsy Bk 1

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• Abused patience turns to fury.

  Thomas Fuller

  Patience, Be Patient, Rage

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• There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

  Thomas Fuller

  Heart, Tongue, Ill

  Thomas Fuller (1815). “An introduction to prudence”, p.234

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• Anger is like
  A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
  Self-mettle tires him.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Self, Hot

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Gordon McMullan (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.223, Cengage Learning EMEA

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