Angry Feelings Quotes

• 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 Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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

  Elizabeth I

  Motivational, Witty, Anger

  To Sir Edward Dyer, in T. Tenison (ed.) 'Baconiana' (1679) Apophthegm 5

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• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Anger

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.94, Random House

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• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

  Cato the Elder

  Educational, Anger, Eye

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• Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

  Evan Esar

  Anger, Feelings, Mind

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• He who angers you conquers you.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Inspirational, Life, Anger

  "Fictional character: Arturo". "Public Art", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, 4th Of July, Anger

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing

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• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Anger, Temper, Worldly Wisdom

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• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.66, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Hurt, Heart

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• Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Forgiveness

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• Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Moving, Anger, Acceptance

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• Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

  William Shenstone

  Moving, Anger, World

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• A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Anger, Character

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• Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

  Joyce Brothers

  Anger, Bad Relationship, Poison

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• Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

  Emily Dickinson

  Anger, Emotion, Fats

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1041, Harvard University Press

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• Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

  John Darnielle

  Feelings, Using Words, Structure

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

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• Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

  Samuel West

  Revenge, Feelings, Morality

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• "O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Feelings, Comfort

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.501

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• ... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

  Frances Wright

  War, Evil, Feelings

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.107

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• Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'.

  Brigham Young

  Wrath, Feelings, Answers

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.136

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• Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you said what you said. It reminds me of what my mother said when she said what she said, and that hurts me so that's where I'm at with this, and it's not all right with me for today.' This should help to avoid a lot of communication problems.

  Judith Stone

  Mother, Hurt, Communication

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