Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

We thought because we had power, we had wisdom.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

You have decided that other clergy all know nothing and you alone know everything, and have sought to use your knowledge not to build but to destroy so that on these grounds we may believe that St. Gregory, whose name you have claimed for yourself, was prophesying when he said: "The mind of the prelate is often exalted by the abundance of his subjects".

Like power in any shape, a full stomach always holds a dose of insolence, and this expresses itself first of all in the well-fed lecturing the starving.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

DuPont had the idea there was nobody in the universe who could tell them anything.

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

Great good fortune coming suddenly and unexpectedly tends to make a people insolent

My biggest problem is overconfidence.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.