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

Style is the dress of thoughts

Style is the dress of thoughts

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...

Ridicule is the best test of truth

Ridicule is the best test of truth

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 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

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

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...

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the...

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the...

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to...

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to...

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how...

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how...

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority...

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority...

Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and...

Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and...

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of...

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of...

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the...

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the...