Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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He is almost a statesman. He lies well.
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
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Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.
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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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One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
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The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
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Leaders deal in hope.
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Unavailable wars are always just.
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I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
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Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.
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A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.
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My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.
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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.
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The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.
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Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.
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It is the success which makes great men.
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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
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When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!
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The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
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As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
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An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
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He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.
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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.