Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte on Wise Famous Quotes.
There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.
No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?
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.
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.
My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.