Napoleon Bonaparte > Quotes

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― 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

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Imgination rules the world”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“History is written by the winners.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
― 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

“You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Memoirs

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

“Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“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

“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

“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, In the Words of Napoleon: A Collection of Quotations of 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

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte