70 Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte


A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte on art

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte on art

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte on best

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte on best

War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte on business

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte on change

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte on communication

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte on courage

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte on courage

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte on courage

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte on death

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

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte on death

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.
Napoleon Bonaparte on fear

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte on fear

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

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte on fear

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

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Napoleon Bonaparte on god

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte on good