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...

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

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...

Observe all men; thy self most.

Observe all men; thy self most.

I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what...

I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what...

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it...

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is...

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is...

The final mystery is oneself.

The final mystery is oneself.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your...

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your...

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at...

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at...

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about...

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about...