Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Variant: It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Source: Interview in the London Times Higher Education Supplement (1987).
“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
Often abbreviated to: Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.
Variant translation: We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
Variant: We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Context: We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.
“Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.”
Source: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
“To accomplish nothing and die of the strain”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Variant: To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.
