Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog,
in any fight,
the lions will die like a dog.
But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion,
all dogs will fight as a lion

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

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

Arabia was idolatrous when,
six centuries after Jesus,
Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham,
of Ishmael,
of Moses,
and Jesus.
The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father,
the son,
and the Holy Ghost.
Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father,
no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

Six hours' sleep for a man,
seven for a woman,
and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation.
Jesus Christ to the Roman world,
Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world,
promise everything,
deliver nothing.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings,
you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character,
we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

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.

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

Once you have made up your mind,
stick to it;
there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

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

If the Earth were a single state,
Istanbul would be its capital.

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs.
It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault;
he must put forward his reasons,
insist on the plan being changed,
and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

It is not necessary to bury the truth.
It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

You don't reason with intellectuals.
You shoot them.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

The stupid speak of the past,
the wise of the present,
and fools of the future.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked,
but by the weakness of the good.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall.
I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

There is only one thing in this world,
and that is to keep acquiring money and more money,
power and more power.
All the rest is meaningless.

Death is nothing,
but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

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

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Leave the Artillerymen alone,
they are an obstinate lot.

You must not fight too often with one enemy,
or you will teach him all your art of war.

War is ninety percent information.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

Muhammad was a prince;
he rallied his compatriots around him.
In a few years,
the Muslims conquered half of the world.
They plucked more souls from false gods,
knocked down more idols,
razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries.
Muhammad was a great man.
He would indeed have been a god,
if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

When you set out to take Vienna,
take Vienna.

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

If I were to give liberty to the press,
my power could not last three days.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power.
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Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army.
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The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.