Napoleon Quotes

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

Success come to those who become success conscious.

Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

Promptly improve your accidents.

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

There is no power without justice.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

Collective crimes incriminate no one.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.