Napoleon Bonaparte

"A man ceases to be a beginner in any given pursuit after he has learned to grasp the weightiness, the gravity of the pursuit."

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

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

"I would rather have a lucky general than a good one."

"Greatness consists in trying and persevering."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"My master is the fact. Before it I kneel."

"There is nothing new except what has been forgotten."

"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."

"The role of a great man is to look back at what has been discovered, taking it as a beginning point for future discovery."

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."

"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

"Everything happens to those who wait, except good luck."

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

"A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder."

"I pay little attention to what any man may say about himself or to what he may write concerning himself."

"The barbershop is the headquarters of wisdom."

"The beautiful things of this world are not all ours; we are only here as temporary custodians."

"One battles through faith, will, and reason."

"It requires thirty years to educate a citizen."

"I have fought a hundred battles and never lost one yet."

"A man of genius is insupportable unless he is also a man of tact."

"The man who has a definite life purpose is always a power for good."

"The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever."

"Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the world to hide it."

"I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire."

"The surest way of concealing one's abilities is to reveal too much of one's opinions."

"As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind."

"There is nothing sacred except honor."

"The victim of credulity is the one who deceives himself."