Accomplished Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.

— Clarence H. Burns

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we…

— Alexandre Dumas

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against…

— Samuel Smiles

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

— Charles Spurgeon

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw…

— Hermann Hesse

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to…

— Anthony Storr

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not…

— Willard Gaylin

Men die the way they lived.

— Johnny Hunt

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

— Matthew Henry