Quotes

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

Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

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

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

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

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

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

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

The word impossible is not French.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

The superior man is never in anyone's way.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Conscience is the most sacred thing among men.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense - he is always satisfied with himself.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination governs the world.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

The superior man is never in anyone's way.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

I generally had to give in.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
-Napoleon Bonaparte