104 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

• Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
• England is a nation of shopkeepers.
• Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
• An army marches on its stomach.
• All religions have been made by men.
• Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
• Ability is nothing without opportunity.
• Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
• There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
• There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
• 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.
• The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
• The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
• The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
• 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.
• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
• Respect the burden.
• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
• A Constitution should be short and obscure.
• The French complain of everything, and always.
• The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
• 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.
• The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
• The army is the true nobility of our country.
• The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
• The human race is governed by its imagination.
• It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
• In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
• Imagination rules the world.
• If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
• Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
• I made all my generals out of mud.
• 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.
• I have only one counsel for you - be master.
• I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
• I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
• 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.
• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
• History is a set of lies agreed upon.
• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
• A leader is a dealer in hope.
• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
• A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
• A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
• France has more need of me than I have need of France.
• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
• Let the path be open to talent.
• 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.
• Medicines are only fit for old people.
• One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
• One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
• Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
• Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
• 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.
• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
• A picture is worth a thousand words.
• Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
• Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
• 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.
• Victory belongs to the most persevering.
• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
• War is the business of barbarians.
• With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
• When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
• When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
• What is history but a fable agreed upon?
• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
• Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.
• Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have strength.
• The most important victory is the one over yourself
• Impossible is just a word in the dictionary of fools.
• Impossible is just a word to be found in the dictionary of fools
• Time is a created thing produced by merely brandishing a schedule—it's given life by being filled with purpose.

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