Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Saturday, September 1, 2018 – Napoleon Bonaparte
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Saturday, September 1, 2018 – Napoleon Bonaparte
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
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“A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.”
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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
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“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
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“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
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“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
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“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
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“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
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“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”
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“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
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“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
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“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself”.
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“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
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“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
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“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
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“One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.”
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“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
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“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.”
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“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”
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“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
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“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”
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“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
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“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”
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“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
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“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”
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“With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.”
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“If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds…. I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.”
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“Success is the most convincing talker in the world.”
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“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”
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“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.”
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“How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.”
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“At the beginning of a campaign it is important to consider whether or not to move forward; but when one has taken the offensive it is necessary to maintain it to the last extremity.”
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“In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.”
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“The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.”
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“A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.”
Wikipedia: Napoleon Bonaparte
