The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
-
-
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
There is a joy in danger.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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 -
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
History is written by the winners.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
An army marches on its stomach.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
The only victory over love is flight.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE