“Coolness is the greatest quality in a man destined to command.”
Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)
Napoleon in His Own Words (Secondary source)
A compilation of sayings attributed to Napoleon, issued without primary references; no original French source identified.
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“That is just it, work is my element; I was born and made for it. I have found the limits of my legs; I have found the limits of my eyes; but I have never been able to find the limits of my labour.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Everything tells me I shall succeed.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified)“Imagination rules the world.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Intelligence precedes force. Force itself is nothing without intelligence. In the heroic age the leader was the strongest man; with civilization he has become the most intelligent of the brave.”
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“No man ever was glorious who was not laborious.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)