Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

War is the business of barbarians.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Imagination rules the world.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

An army marches on its stomach.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Vengeance has no foresight.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

A true man hates no one.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

There are two kinds of fidelity - that of dogs and that of cats; and you gentlemen, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

I made all my generals out of mud.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.