Selected Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte
"Put your iron hand in a velvet glove."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"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, Love
"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Goals
"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Government
"Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Courage, Love, Hope
"The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Success
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Success
"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Intelligence/Wisdom
"The surest way to remain poor is to be honest."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Business
"Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Success
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Music
"Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Problems
"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Business
"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, Love
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Government
"Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Goals
"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Management
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Life
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Intelligence/Wisdom
"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Success
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Kindness
"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."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Intelligence/Wisdom
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Life
"You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Intelligence/Wisdom, Anger and Fighting
"A woman laughing is a woman conquered."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Love
"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, Friendship
"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."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Belief
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Management
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Management
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Freedom
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Work
"Imagination governs the world."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Belief
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Government
"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Courage
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."