Napoleon Quotes

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Ability is noting without opportunity.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.

Vengeance has no foresight.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Who saves his country violates no law.

Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.