Napoleon Quotes

The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

There is no real force without justice.

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.

The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.

I start out by believing the worst

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

It is the success which makes great men.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.