Top 867 Quotes & Sayings by Napoleon Bonaparte
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Last updated on September 14, 2024.
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 surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
An army marches on its stomach.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Imagination rules the world.
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
A true man hates no one.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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