"My success and everything good that I..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.
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“Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.”
“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
More on Motherhood
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.”
“I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.”
“The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly”