Napoleon Quotes

No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

Space we can recover; time never.

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

Time is the great art of man.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

You can do it if you believe you can.

Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

A starving army is actually worse than none.

It takes a habit to replace a habit.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

A general must be a charlatan.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.