Fleeting Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte Download Open image “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” — Napoleon Bonaparte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fleeting Forever Glory
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
“Glory is a veneer that reflects the light only from a distance. Up close you can see through it, to bitter price paid in… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Glory is for none but the learned, Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance. Every person is measured based on how… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it… — Chris Fabry Copy Share Image
The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise. — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
