“Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Oct. 1, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them…" by Napoleon I of France?
Napoleon I of France photo
Napoleon I of France 259
French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821

Related quotes

Natalie Merchant photo

“see them walking, if you dare
if you call that walking
stumble, stagger, fall and drag themselves
along the streets of heaven”

Natalie Merchant (1963) American singer-songwriter

Song lyrics, In My Tribe (1987), City of Angels

Neal Shusterman photo
Liam Payne photo

“Dreams are like stars; you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.”

Liam Payne (1993) English singer and songwriter

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422617.Liam_Payne

“The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..”

Stanley Fish (1938) American academic

Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 10, Sentences That Are About Themselves (Aren't They All?), p. 137

Henry Rollins photo
Ernest Hemingway photo

“Among the superficial, if you are not one of them, one of them has to lead you by the hand.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

En lo superficial, si no eres superficial, necesitas que te lleve de la mano alguien superficial.
Voces (1943)

Jenny Han photo

Related topics