Famous Napoleon Quotations

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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"A Constitution should be short and obscure."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
by 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."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
by Napoleon Hill
"The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim."
by Napoleon Hill
"There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Truth alone wounds."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."
by Napoleon Hill
"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Chance is the providence of adventurers."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed."
by Anonymous
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
by Napoleon Hill
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
by Napoleon
"I made all my generals out of mud."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after."
by Napoleon Hill
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Let the path be open to talent."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him."
by Napoleon Hill
"Respect the burden."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good."
by Anonymous
"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."
by Napoleon Hill
"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
by Napoleon Hill
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
by Napoleon Hill
"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
by Salvador Dali
"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."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
by Napoleon
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
by Napoleon
"Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"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."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"A true man hates no one."
by 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"
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"All religions have been made by men."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."
by Napoleon Hill
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms."
by Robert Heinlein
"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
by Napoleon Hill
"Chief of the Army."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."
by Napoleon Hill
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily"
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved."
by Napoleon Hill
"England is a nation of shopkeepers."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave"
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."
by Napoleon Hill
"Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"France has more need of me than I have need of France."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets"
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."
by Napoleon
"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever"
by 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."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast"
by Henry Bromel
"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it."
by Ted Morgan
"I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"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."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement"
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"I have only one counsel for you - be master."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Ideas... they have the powerâ?¦"
by Napoleon Hill
"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''"
by Napoleon Hill
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."
by Napoleon
"Imagination rules the world."
by Napoleon I
"In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them"
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"In politics, absurdity is not a handicap."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."
by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Indecision is the seedling of fear"
by Napoleon Hill


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