Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Character is victory organized.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have only one counsel for you -- be master.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Let the path be open to talent.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

— Napoleon Bonaparte

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I made all my generals out of mud.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The human race is governed by its imagination.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination rules the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a dealer in hope.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are lead by trifles.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The only victory over love is flight.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicines are only fit for old people.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A true man hates no one.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The French complain of everything, and always.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Occupation is the scythe of time.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Who saves his country violates no law.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Respect the burden.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Truth alone wounds.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Vengeance has no foresight.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

— Napoleon Bonaparte