“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

It’s the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.

If you don’t seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do

Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.