Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

In his lifetime Lincoln was maligned and traduced, but detraction during a man's lifetime affords no test of his life's value nor offers any forecast of history's verdict. It would almost seem as if the glory of immortality were anticipated in the life of the great by detraction and denial whilst they yet lived.

Of all the delusions that existed, Posthumous Fame was the greatest.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.