Napoleon Quotes

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue ;
courage is only the second virtue.

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

The great mass of society are far from being depraved; for if a large majority were criminal or inclined to break the laws, where would the force or power be to prevent or constrain them? And herein is the real blessing of civilization, because this happy result has its origin in her bosom, growing out of her very nature.

From triumph to failure is only one step.

Force cannot organize anything.In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit by which I mean the civil and religious institutions of a nation.
Napoleon Bonaparte.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever

I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.

Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.

no one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate

I did not usurp the crown; it was in the gutter and I picked it out.

The reading of history very soon made me feel that I was capable of achieving as much as the men who are placed in the highest ranks of our annals.

In this life, we are either kings or pawns, Emperors or fools