“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“History is written by the winners.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Conquests will come and go but Delambre‘s work will endure.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
― Napoléon 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.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte, Napoleon’s Memoirs
“The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte, In the Words of Napoleon: A Collection of Quotations of 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.”
― Napoléon 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”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Let her sleep
For when she wakes,
She will move mountains.”
― Napoléon 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.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
