Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

You can't control everything that comes to you.

You can't. You just have to.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

There have been many times in my life where I got opportunities that I never thought would be the things that I needed, so I'm always saying, "I want to do this but whatever the universe thinks is right, I'm open." Because otherwise it causes me so much pain if I don't get what I want. It's my least favorite thing.

Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

If I have to, I can do anything.

There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.