“How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
This quote is commonly attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“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 Secondary source“Everything tells me I shall succeed.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Primary source“Imagination rules the world.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Secondary source“There is nothing in war, which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody to make gunpowder, I can manufacture it. The guncarriages I know how to construct. If it is necessary to make cannons at the forge, I can make them. The details of working them in battle, if it is necessary to teach, I shall teach them. In administration, it is I alone who have arranged the finances, as you know.”
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“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Disputed“Observe all men; thyself most.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Every thing impossible, until we see a success.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source