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.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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.
In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.
But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.
No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.
No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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