Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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.
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.
There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.
