"There is only one favorable moment in..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
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“There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.”
“Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.”
“Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work”
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“Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.”
“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.”
“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.”
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“Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.”
“Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.”
“Credit is a young man's capital.”