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...

Ridicule is the best test of truth

Ridicule is the best test of truth

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...

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...

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

Style is the dress of thoughts

Style is the dress of thoughts

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

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...

Promptness is the soul of business

Promptness is the soul of business

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality

Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely

Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It...

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It...

As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will...

As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will...

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than...

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than...

Punctuality is the politeness of kings

Punctuality is the politeness of kings

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.