Napoleon Quotes

Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!

The person who works harder when the boss isn’t around is headed straight for a better job.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity

In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

Un croquis vaut mieux qu

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.

If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.