Napoleon Bonaparte

"Success is the most boring thing. It's the struggle that makes you."

"I am not afraid of the pen, of the canvas, or of the burin, but I am very much afraid of fire."

"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."

"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

"I love the smell of gunpowder in the morning... it smells like victory."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Circumstances? I make circumstances!"

"Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal."

"I would sooner have a man admit to cowardice than to hypocrisy."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be enlightened."

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."

"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the spirit always wins."

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."

"Courage is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."

"The son of a cat is also a cat, and thus I must remain a soldier."

"My true love has always been the impossible."

"If the art of war were nothing but the art of reasoning in a straight line, the service of the engineer would be all that is needed."

"Men's ambitions are the fuel that drives all human endeavor."

"The bullet that will kill me has not yet been cast."

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."

"I pay more attention to a shipwreck than the death of a thousand men."

"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."