Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• 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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Ambition, Pride

• If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ambition, Pride, Your Side

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.136

• There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Ambition, Passion

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