Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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

I made all my generals out of mud.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

A true man hates no one.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

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

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Respect the burden.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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.