you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
Interpretation
A person's character can be assessed by their reactions to anger-inducing situations.
This quote by Dale Carnegie suggests that an individual's true nature and moral values are revealed through their anger. How one responds to anger β what triggers it and how they manage that emotion β can act as an indicator of their character and the principles they hold dear.
In practice
In a team-building seminar, I might say, 'As Dale Carnegie said, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry, emphasizing the importance of emotional intelligence in leaders.'
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
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I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.
Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?
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