Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes And Sayings

The Truest Wisdom Is A Resolute Determination.

There Is No Such Thing As Accident; It Is Fate Misnamed.

Soldiers Generally Win Battles; Generals Get Credit For Them.

In Politics... Never Retreat, Never Retract... Never Admit A Mistake.

I Am The Successor, Not Of Louis Xvi, But Of Charlemagne.

What Is History But A Fable Agreed Upon?

A Throne Is Only A Bench Covered With Velvet.

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.

When Small Men Attempt Great Enterprises, They Always End By Reducing Them To The Level Of Their Mediocrity.

You Must Not Fight Too Often With One Enemy, Or You Will Teach Him All Your Art Of War.

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.

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.

I Have Only One Counsel For You - Be Master.

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.

Water, Air, And Cleanness Are The Chief Articles In My Pharmacy.

A Celebrated People Lose Dignity Upon A Closer View.

One Must Change One's Tactics Every Ten Years If One Wishes To Maintain One's Superiority.

Nothing Is More Difficult, And Therefore More Precious, Than To Be Able To Decide.

History Is A Set Of Lies Agreed Upon.

The Surest Way To Remain Poor Is To Be An Honest Man.

History Is The Version Of Past Events That People Have Decided To Agree Upon.

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.

A Revolution Is An Idea Which Has Found Its Bayonets.

One Should Never Forbid What One Lacks The Power To Prevent.

I Am Sometimes A Fox And Sometimes A Lion. The Whole Secret Of Government Lies In Knowing When To Be The One Or The Other.

France Has More Need Of Me Than I Have Need Of France.

Throw Off Your Worries When You Throw Off Your Clothes At Night.

The Best Way To Keep One's Word Is Not To Give It.

If I Had To Choose A Religion, The Sun As The Universal Giver Of Life Would Be My God.

Music Is The Voice That Tells Us That The Human Race Is Greater Than It Knows.

Medicines Are Only Fit For Old People.

It Requires More Courage To Suffer Than To Die.

If You Want A Thing Done Well, Do It Yourself.

Take Time To Deliberate, But When The Time For Action Has Arrived, Stop Thinking And Go In.

The Act Of Policing Is, In Order To Punish Less Often, To Punish More Severely.

Skepticism Is A Virtue In History As Well As In Philosophy.

Doctors Will Have More Lives To Answer For In The Next World Than Even We Generals.

Men Are Moved By Two Levers Only: Fear And Self Interest.

The Human Race Is Governed By Its Imagination.

You Must Not Fear Death, My Lads; Defy Him, And You Drive Him Into The Enemy's Ranks.

The French Complain Of Everything, And Always.

Imagination Rules The World.

Riches Do Not Consist In The Possession Of Treasures, But In The Use Made Of Them.

War Is The Business Of Barbarians.

A Man Cannot Become An Atheist Merely By Wishing It.

All Religions Have Been Made By Men.

Ability Is Nothing Without Opportunity.

There Is Only One Step From The Sublime To The Ridiculous.

The Army Is The True Nobility Of Our Country.

We Must Laugh At Man To Avoid Crying For Him.