Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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

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.

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

All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.

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

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 principles which direct them.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

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

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.

Respect the burden.

There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

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

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

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

With audacity one can undertake anything.

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

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

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

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.

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

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.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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

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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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

Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Imagination rules the world.

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

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

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

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

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

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.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.

If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.

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

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