Great Quotes from Napoleon
Napoleon I (born Napoleone di Buonaparte, later Napoléon Bonaparte) was a French military and political leader who had significant impact on modern European history. He was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as Premier Consul of the French Republic, Empereur des Français, King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
“Imagination governs the world.”
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
“History is written by the winners.”
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
“Conquests will come and go but Delambre‘s work will endure.”
“You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
“The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”
“Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
“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”
“The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.”
“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.”
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
