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

Ridicule is the best test of truth

Ridicule is the best test of truth

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...

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

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...

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...

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

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...

Promptness is the soul of business

Promptness is the soul of business

Style is the dress of thoughts

Style is the dress of thoughts

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a...

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a...

Whatever happens to be in style.

Whatever happens to be in style.

The style is the man himself

The style is the man himself

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for...

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for...

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak...

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak...

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

Style is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after...

Style is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after...

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties...

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties...