Napoleon Quotes

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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.

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.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind

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

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

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

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

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.

Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

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

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

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.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.