Quotes - G C (Northampton, J1, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 46

#1

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: courage, inspirational, strength

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#2

“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: art, imagination

653 likes

#3

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history, lies, lying, propoganda, rewriting-history, self-deception

1132 likes

#4

“History is written by the winners.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history

458 likes

#5

“You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Memoirs

309 likes

#6

“Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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#7

“The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.”
― Napoleon

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#8

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: fear-of-failure

226 likes

#9

“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.”
― Napoleon

217 likes

#10

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

231 likes

#11

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

207 likes

#12

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

6674 likes

#13

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

1112 likes

#14

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: philosophy

1160 likes

#15

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

tags: daring, risk, success

945 likes

#16

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: deception

965 likes

#17

“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

866 likes

#18

“People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

623 likes

#19

“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo

tags: political-theory, sociology

597 likes

#20

“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses

tags: driving-forces, hate, impulses, love, men

578 likes

#21

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

475 likes

#22

“…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

434 likes

#23

“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

424 likes

#24

“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

396 likes

#25

“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: bdsm-sex, leadership, politics, tyranny

362 likes

#26

“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

334 likes

#27

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

230 likes

#28

“It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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#29

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: life

81 likes

#30

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

tags: greatness

76 likes

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