A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEMen are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.
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The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
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Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
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Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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There is a joy in danger.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
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History is written by the winners.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
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You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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