Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.
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In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.
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It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
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War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.
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I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
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Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.
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True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
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A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
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Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
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He is almost a statesman. He lies well.
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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
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Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
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All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
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The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.
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God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
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A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.
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The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
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I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
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I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers.