Philip Dormer Stanhope quotes

" Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. " # Decisions # Understanding # Learning

" You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. " # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership # Happiness

" Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. " # Failure

" Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching. " # Coaches and Coaching # Faith # Failure

" Dispatch is the soul of business. " # Business

" I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh. " # Laughter # Reason # Love

" Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. " # Association

" Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights. " # Uniqueness # Marriage # Friends and Friendship

" A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward. " # Coward and Cowardice # Heroes and Heroism # Rewards

" Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing. " # Uncategorised # Critics and Criticism # Taste