Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

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Great politics is just the application of common sense in big business.

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Men of genius are meteorites destined to burn to light up their century.

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There are two levers for influencing people: fear and self-interest.

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Skillful flatterers are often no less skillful slanderers.

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The art of leadership is to allow people to grow old in their roles.

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A beautiful woman is pleasing to the eye, and a gentle woman to the heart; the former is a wonderful thing, but the latter is a treasure.

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He who stands high and stands in the sight of all must not allow himself impetuous movements.

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The best orator in the world is success.

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Love is for a lazy man an occupation in itself, for a soldier - entertainment, and for an emperor - an unexpected obstacle.

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Love of country is the first quality of the civilized man.

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The winner is not the one who gave good advice, but the one who took responsibility for its fulfillment and gave the order for its execution.

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Imagination rules the world.

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Numerous battalions are always right.

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Only wake me when you have bad news; in case of good news, don't let it cross your mind.

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In any large-scale enterprise you must always leave a particle, and to the will of chance.

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In love, the only victory is flight.

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Each soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

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In Russia there are no roads, only directions.

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The armed forces are not always enough to defend the country, while a country defended by the people is invincible.

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War consists of a series of unforeseen events.

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An army of rams and led by a lion will always defeat an army of lions and led by a ram.

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The man who accepts to be manipulated by the woman is neither man nor woman, but nothing.

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The most immoral thing of all is to start doing what you don't know how to do.

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The people who do not want to feed their own army will soon be forced to feed the enemy's army.

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Glory is fleeting.

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Anything can be started with courage, but not everything can be finished.

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Only the truth is insulting.

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Where no flowers grow, man cannot live.

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Politics has no heart, only head.

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Success breeds great men.

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Fanaticism must be put to sleep, so that it can be uprooted.

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You can do anything with bayonets; just sitting on them is not possible. You can manipulate people with these miserable bastards.

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I am either a fox or a lion. The whole secret of leading is knowing when to be one, and when to be another.

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Power is never cheap.

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Religion is an important subject in ladies' schools. She is, no matter how we look at her, a guarantee for mothers and husbands. School should teach a young lady to believe, not to think.

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Marriage is not provided by nature.

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There is nothing smoldering than helplessness that feels supported.

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The uneducated man is boring, but the pedant is unbearable.

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Don't care what party the man who wants you to do him justice belongs to.

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Habit makes us commit foolish mistakes, the biggest of which is to become a slave to it.

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One bad commander is better than two good commanders.

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From the sublime to the ridiculous is but one step.

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A soldier is required first of all for endurance and patience; and only then, bravery.

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From mind to reason is a greater distance than one thinks.

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Public opinion always has the last word.

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He who knows how to flatter can also slander.

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If you want to be successful in the world, promise everything and deliver nothing.

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Great people are meteors: they consume themselves to flood the world with light.

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The best defense is offense.

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Wealth does not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use of them.

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There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the spirit. In the long run, however, the spirit always conquers the sword.

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Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake.

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Love is the occupation of the idler, the amusement of the warrior, and the recreation of the ruler.

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Courage cannot be faked, it is a virtue that knows no hypocrisy.

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If you've done everything you can, you're human. If you've done everything you wanted to, then god.

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The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary.

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Ten people talking makes more noise than ten thousand people listening.

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War is usually won by the soldiers and the warlords profit from it.

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The time is not far off when we will become aware that we can only land in England if we first conquer Egypt.

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The heart is an unknown concept in politics, only the head counts.

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The greatest immorality is when someone gets involved in something they don't understand.

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A nation can only be led if we show it a future. The leader: optimist.

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Keep it short and vague!

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If I could make peace, I would be far more proud of that than of the dubious reputation gained through military success.

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In politics, stupidity is not a disadvantage.

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Love is the common folly of two people.

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With the help of my priests and gendarmes, I can do everything.

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A general who cares too much about reserves before a battle will surely be defeated.

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Only the revolution of rumbling stomachs is dangerous.

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Geniuses are destined to light up their century by burning like meteors.

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They think I'm ambitious because I'm young and hot-tempered. How could I respond to such a slander?

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My conscience is the court before which I give an account of my actions.

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If I could lock you in my heart, I would hold you there.

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Give me a good mother and I will give you a good nation.

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Love can only be conquered by running.

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Truth embraces the universe. Like Christianity - the only religion that overcomes prejudice; the only one that proclaims equality and unconditional brotherhood among men; the only one that is purely spiritual, in the end, the only one that belongs to everyone, without exception, for a true country, according to the heart intention of the Creator God. Christ proved through His suffering that He is the Son of the Eternal.All of His teachings revolve around one and the same theme: eternity.

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Can they imagine Caesar as the Hereditary Emperor of the Roman Empire, ruling his empire from his grave, holding the fate of Rome in his hands? It is the same with this world, which has been conquered by Christianity. Similar is the power of God in Christians. Similar is the miracle of continued growth by faith and the executive power of the Church. Nations disappear, kings, but the Church remains. What a force that protected the Church from the fury of the masses of people attacking it and the storms of the ages! Whose hand has protected the Church from the calamities threatening it for 18 centuries?

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I despise ingratitude, it is the worst sin of the human heart.

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True glory is when someone can rise above himself.

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If you're going to screw things up, at least be successful.

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The progress and improvement of mathematics is closely related to the prosperity of the state.

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A beautiful woman is pleasing to the eye, a fair woman is pleasing to the heart; one is a jewel, the other a treasure.

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Nations disappear, thrones fall, the church remains.

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Governance is a service.

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Woe to the general who arrives on the battlefield with a ready plan.

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I've always liked to analyze things: "why" and "how" are useful questions that we can't ask ourselves enough.

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I am the instrument of providence; he will support me until I fulfill his intentions, and then he will break like a glass.

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A common sense, a heart, and an honest spirit are sufficient to grasp Christianity. The Christian religion is not an ideology, nor a metaphysics, but practical laws that guide, correct, advise and direct human actions in all their actions.

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Actually, science and philosophy are not useful for salvation; Jesus came to earth to reveal the secrets of heaven and the laws of the spirit. He brought the good news for none other than the soul. The soul is sufficient for him, as He is sufficient for the soul. Before that, the soul was nothing. Matter and time were the masters of the world. Everything fell into place according to his word. Science and philosophy became secondary. The soul regained its sovereignty. All scholastic scaffolding, like an edifice, collapses before one word: faith.

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Pagan religions are human creations. They only reveal our own stupidity. What do these gods know more than other mortals that they are so proud of? (...) If someone enters a pagan sanctuary: then he comes into perfect chaos, encounters thousands of contradictions, conflicts of gods, statues unable to move or act, the division and change of unity, rotting wood, an idol and a priest... All these Are they glorifying God or dishonoring Him? Can these religions and gods be compared to Christianity?

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You shouldn't fight the same enemy often because he will learn your tactics.

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In politics, it is forbidden to withdraw anything, back down, or admit that we made a mistake.

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In the future world, doctors will be responsible for more lives than we, generals, are now.

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History is a bunch of lies that many have agreed upon.

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The throne is just a simple chair covered in velvet.

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A true soldier can fight persistently and hard for a single small colored ribbon.

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Religion is what keeps the poor from killing the rich.

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I shape the circumstances!

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Man's ambition creates for himself an ideal audience called posterity.

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I believe that Jesus was executed just like any other fanatic who pretended to be a prophet or savior. There have always been people like that...

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There is only one step from sublime to ridiculous.

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I know people and I say that Jesus is not a man. It is superficial thinking to see similarities between Christ and the founders of empires and other religions. Such a similarity does not exist... In vain I look for anything in history that would be similar to Jesus Christ or approach the Gospels. Neither in history, nor in humanity, nor in the ages, nor in nature have I seen anything that could be compared to this, or that would provide an explanation for all of this.

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The Gospel has a mysterious power, an inexpressible effect, a warmth that speaks to the intellect and impresses the heart... Here I have the privileged book on my table, I never get tired of reading it again and again.

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Only I, only I can do my downfall. I was my own worst enemy - the sole cause of my misfortune.

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If I had to choose a religion, the Sun as the giver of life would be my god.

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The most complex and therefore the most valuable quality is the ability to make decisions.

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War is 90 percent information.

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There is a kind of robber who is not punished by the law and who steals the most valuable thing from a person: time.