Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
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Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
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After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
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It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.
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Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.
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Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.
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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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Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.
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In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.
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A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.
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There is no real force without justice.
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The worse the man, the better the soldier.
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Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.
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When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
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Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
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The implements to him who can handle them.
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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
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In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
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Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.
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The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.
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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.