Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Union
  • Martyrdom
  • Matrimony

• There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Special

• Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Why
  • She
  • Power

• When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

  

  John Otto Limp Bizkit
  • Pretty

• I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Care

• It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Journey

• There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Peace

• We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Wise
  • Wanted
  • Accomplished

• Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

  

  Confucius
  • Courage
  • Trouble
  • Morality

• Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Change
  • Lose
  • Ruin

• I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Practice
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• I've been seeing a different side basically all year long. His demeanor is totally different from being an assistant coach and the Maurice Cheeks that I got to know throughout the years of him being here. I expect it because he has a different role now.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Different
  • Long
  • Role

• I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Done
  • Sacrifice
  • Glory

• When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Achieved
  • Merit

• What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • World
  • Free
  • Glorious

• More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Possess
  • Merit
  • Glorious