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Anger

(noun) A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm. Example: "You need to control your anger."

21 QUOTES
"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
"Anger cannot be dishonest."
— Marcus Aurelius
"When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
— Socrates
"Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."
— Sun Tzu
"Go, and never darken my towels again."
— Groucho Marx
"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth."
— Gautama Buddha
"A heart filled with anger has no room for love."
— Joan Lunden
"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
— Maya Angelou
"Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind."
— Dalai Lama
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