Napoleon Bonaparte Greatness Quotes & Sayings

Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination: thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His observation helps to explain why the world, only a few years after sighing with relief at its delivery from the ogre, began to worship him as the greatest man of modern times. Napoleon had barely left the scene when the fifteen years that he had carved out of world history to create his glory seemed scarcely believable. Only the scars of the war veterans and the empty places in the widows' beds seemed to attest to the reality of those years, and time soon eliminated even these silent witnesses. What remained, in retrospect and in the imagination, was legend and symbol. — J. Christopher Herold

He got to see his friends differently, not as just appendages to his life but as distinct characters inhabiting their own stories; — Hanya Yanagihara

It's not funny. I've got a naked drunk vampire running around in my orchard. — Ilona Andrews

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting. — Napoleon Bonaparte

When he finally lifted his head up from the sea to cough, then breathe, he looked out at all the water before him, at the vast expanse of time and space. He could hear Marjorie laughing, and soon, he laughed too. When he finally reached her, she was moving just enough to keep her head above water. The black stone necklace rested just below her collarbone and Marcus watched the glints of gold come off it, shining in the sun. "Here," Marjorie said. "Have it." She lifted the stone from her neck, and placed it around Marcus's. "Welcome home. — Yaa Gyasi

No king establishes a kingdom without pouring blood of a nation. — Auliq Ice

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies. — David Eagleman

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers. — Napoleon Bonaparte

what is lost when the ends are interpreted to justify the means is always greater than what we sought to preserve with our unjustifiable actions. — A.D. Bloom

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world — Napoleon Bonaparte

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting — Napoleon Bonaparte

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform ... — John Wycliffe

The more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another. — Elias Hicks

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. — Napoleon Bonaparte