Napoleon Quotes

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.

All things proclaim the existence of God.

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

They wanted me to be a Washington.

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

Capability means imagination.

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

The implements to him who can handle them.

It is with artillery that war is made.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.