“Real compassion lies within our ability to remember that an angry, vengeful or hateful person is usually just someone who can no longer bear the weary weight of his or her own carefully concealed despair.”

— Guy Finley

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American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teach… 1949

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Variant: you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: Almost Perfect

“Before disrespecting a correct person, think carefully. A correct person, such a gesture remembers him throughout his life.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Prima di mancare di rispetto ad una persona corretta, pensaci bene. Una persona corretta, tale gesto lo ricorda per tutta la vita.
Source: prevale.net

“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

The Philistine magazine, August 1901 http://books.google.com/books?id=xxI8AQAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+something+that+is+much+more+scarce+something+finer+far+something+rarer+than+ability+It+is+the+ability+to+recognize+ability+The+sternest+comment+that+can+be+made+against+employers+as+a+class+lies+in+the+fact+that+men+of+Ability+usually+succeed+in+showing+their+worth+in+spite+of+their+employer+and+not+with+his+assistance+and+encouragement%22&pg=PA87#v=onepage
"The Crying Need", in A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things (1901), p. 163 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSo3AAAAIAAJ&q=%22There+is+something+that+is+much+more+scarce+something+finer+far+something+rarer+than+ability+It+is+the+ability+to+recognize+ability+The+sternest+comment+that+can+be+made+against+employers+as+a+class+lies+in+the+fact+that+men+of+Ability+usually+succeed+in+showing+their+worth+in+spite+of+their+employer+and+not+with+his+assistance+and+encouragement%22&pg=PA163#v=onepage