Leader · French · 1769 – 1821 · 104 quotes
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leader · French · 1769 – 1821
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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.
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.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
The French complain of everything, and always.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
All religions have been made by men.
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.
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Imagination rules the world.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
A true man hates no one.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
I made all my generals out of mud.
Respect the burden.
Let the path be open to talent.
