Napoleon Bonaparte Inspiring Quotes
- “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
- “It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
- “Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
- “The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
- He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
- “There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind”
- “Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
- “The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”
- “You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
- “A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”
- “Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.”
- “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
- “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.”
- “A leader is a dealer in hope.”
- “If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
- “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
- Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
- “History is written by the winners.”
- “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
- “If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
- “Imagination governs the world.”
- “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
- “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
- “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
- “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
- “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
- “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
- “It’s the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory”
- “Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.”
- “A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
- “I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You”
- “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.”
- “The only victory over love is flight.”
- “In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”
- The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory”
- “If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.”
- “Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.”
- “The best cure for the body is a quiet mind”
- “A true man hates no one.”
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
- To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.”
- “Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”
- “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
- “The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.”
- “The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.”
- “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
- “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
- “Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”
- “Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
- “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..”
- “Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”
- “Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
- “Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances”
- “When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
- “As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.”
- Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
- “Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
- “I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.”
- “I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.”
- “We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
- “It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
- “The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies”
