Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Time
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
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Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
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The favorable opportunity must be seized; for fortune is female, and if you balk her today you must not expect to meet her again tomorrow.
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The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? Excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense.