Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

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

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.

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

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

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

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

Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.

War is ninety percent information.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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

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

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

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

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

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

God is on the side with the best artillery