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.
We are bound by nothing except belief.
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.
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