Great men Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte Download Open image “In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.” — Napoleon Bonaparte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great men Greatness Men Spheres
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
Great men are ordinary men with an extraordinary amount of determination. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.” — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
