One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTETake time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
-
-
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
A leader is a dealer in hope.
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 -
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
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 -
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 -
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 -
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds, I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE