quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Imgination rules the world"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"History is written by the winners"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

""Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.""
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

""Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.""
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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— Napoleon Bonaparte

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.

Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them."
— Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon's Memoirs)

"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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— Napoleon Bonaparte

"A leader is a dealer in hope."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"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."
— Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon's Art of War)

"There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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— Napoleon Bonaparte

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"The only victory over love is flight."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

""The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.""
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Let Him Sleep...For When He Wakes, He Will Move Mountains."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"A leader is a dealer in hope"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"I have seen only U, I have admired only U, I desire only U
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— Napoleon Bonaparte

"A picture is worth a thousand words. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"History is a myth men have agreed upon."
— Napoleon Bonaparte (The Military Maxims of Napoleon)

"Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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— Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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— Napoleon Bonaparte

"A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"War is the business of barbarians."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Imagination rules the world."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"
— Napoleon Bonaparte