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Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader is a dealer in hope.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A picture is worth a thousand words.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A true man hates no one.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
An army marches on its stomach.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
I made all my generals out of mud.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination rules the world.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Let the path be open to talent.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Medicines are only fit for old people.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Respect the burden.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The French complain of everything, and always.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The human race is governed by its imagination.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the business of barbarians.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
– Napoleon Bonaparte
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
– Napoleon Bonaparte