Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
No man should be angry with what is true.
My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.
Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
