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Encouraging Others to Be Kind, Selfless, Giving and Openly Emotional


Anger is a normal feeling and can be a positive emotion when it helps you work through issues or problems, whether that’s at work or at home. However, anger can become problematic if it leads to aggression, outbursts, or even physical altercations.

It’s said a gentleman is a man with good manners, kind and honest… but I´m not sure many people would consider him a gentleman. In this article I would like to add quotes on enemies to flesh out a fuller picture of how I see it.


“If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.” ― Amor Towles

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” ― Confucius

“Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.” ― Pietro Aretino


““In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.” ― Ephesians 4:26-27 (NIV)

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” ― G.K. Chesterton


“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson


“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”  ― C.S. Lewis

“I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.” ― Sri Chinmoy

“Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears.” ― Laird Hamilton


“Don’t laugh when your enemy falls; don’t gloat over his collapse. GOD might see, and become very provoked, and then take pity on his plight.”  Proverbs 24:17 (MSG)


“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal.” ― John Steinbeck

“Most men live lives of quiet desperation.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“Living well is the best revenge” ― George Herbert

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