Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The French complain of everything, and always.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.