Collection of famous quotes by French statesman Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon Bonaparte, born Napoleone di Buonaparte, was a French statesman and military leader who became famous as an artillery commander during the French Revolution.
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Best Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
A picture is worth a thousand words.
You must not fight too often with one enemy or you will teach him all your art of war.
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
War is the business of barbarians.
One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
Death is nothing but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
You must not fear death my lads defy him and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.
It is the cause not the death that makes the martyr.
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.
You must not fear death my lads defy him and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.
There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
If I had to choose a religion the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When small men attempt great enterprises they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
The herd seek out the great not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Imagination rules the world.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
If I had to choose a religion the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
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.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
All religions have been made by men.
When small men attempt great enterprises they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
In politics… never retreat never retract… never admit a mistake.
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.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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.
Respect the burden.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
If you wish to be a success in the world promise everything deliver nothing.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go in.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
You must not fight too often with one enemy or you will teach him all your art of war.
War is the business of barbarians.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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