Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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.

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

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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

War is the business of barbarians.

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

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

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

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.

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.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Imagination rules the world.

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.

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

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

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

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

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.

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

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

An army marches on its stomach.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

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

A true man hates no one.

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

Vengeance has no foresight.

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

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

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

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

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

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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

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

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

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.

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

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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

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

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

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

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

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

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

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

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

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

I made all my generals out of mud.

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

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

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

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

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

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.

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

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

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

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances