If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Topics: Leadership Quotes, Pride Quotes

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it...

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it...

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when...

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when...

Being pretty on the inside means you dont hit your brother and you eat all...

Being pretty on the inside means you dont hit your brother and you eat all...

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

Style is the dress of thoughts

Style is the dress of thoughts

Ridicule is the best test of truth

Ridicule is the best test of truth

Promptness is the soul of business

Promptness is the soul of business

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and...

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and...

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it,...

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it,...

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is...

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is...

Communication--the human connection--is the key to personal and career success.

Communication--the human connection--is the key to personal and career success.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody...

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody...

Not everything you want is everything you really need. The standard of society is motivated...

Not everything you want is everything you really need. The standard of society is motivated...

To lead the people, walk behind them.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999...

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999...

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.