Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.
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Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.
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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
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A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
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Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.
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The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
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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.
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Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
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Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.
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Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.
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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.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
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Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.