Napoleon Bonaparte quotes & Sayings

• Ability is of little account without opportunity.
• All religions have been made by men.
• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
• A picture is worth a thousand words.
• 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.
• I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
• If you start to take Vienna – take Vienna.
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
• If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
• Imagination rules the world.
• I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.
• In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.
• It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr.
• It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
• Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
• Music is the Voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
• No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl’s heart.
• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
• One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
• Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.
• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
• The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
• There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
• The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
• The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
• The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
• Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
• 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.
• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
• What is history but a fable agreed upon?
• Women are nothing but machines for producing children.