Leaders Quotes | Napoleon Bonaparte
1.Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can fly.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
2. If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
4. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
5. Imagination governs the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
6. History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
7. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
8. Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
9. In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
10. Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
11. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
12. Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
13. The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
14. You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
15. A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
16. Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
17. The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
18. A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
19. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
20. Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
21. History is written by the winners.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
22. It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
23. A picture is worth a thousand words.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
24. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
25. The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
26. The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
27. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
28. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
29. 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
30. Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
31. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
32. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..
- Napoleon Bonaparte
33. Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
34. Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
35. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
36. Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
37. 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
38. China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
39. 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
40. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
41. Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
42. To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
43. If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
44. A true man hates no one.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
45. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
46. The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
48. Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
49. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
50. The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
51. Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
52. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
53. We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
54. A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
55. I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
56. In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
57. The only victory over love is flight.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
58. 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
59. The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
60. The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
61. All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
62. If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
63. The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
64. It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
65. I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
66. I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
67. 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
68. Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
69. It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
70. Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
71. There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
72. Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
73. Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
74. Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
75. Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
76. A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
77. To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
78. When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
79. The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
80. Nothing is lost as long as courage remains.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
81. You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
82. What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
83. In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
84. Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
85. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
86. One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
87. It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
88. Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
89. We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
90. We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
91. It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
92. He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
93. Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
94. Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
95. Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
96. Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
97. If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
98. I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
- Napoleon Bonaparte
99. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
100. You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Born: 15 August 1769
Died: 5 May 1821
Country: France
1.Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can fly.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
2. If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
4. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
5. Imagination governs the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
6. History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
7. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
8. Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
9. In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
10. Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
11. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
12. Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
13. The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
14. You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
15. A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
16. Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
17. The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
18. A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
19. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
20. Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
21. History is written by the winners.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
22. It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
23. A picture is worth a thousand words.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
24. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
25. The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
26. The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
27. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
28. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
29. 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
30. Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
31. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
32. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..
- Napoleon Bonaparte
33. Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
34. Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
35. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
36. Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
37. 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
38. China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
39. 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
40. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
41. Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
42. To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
43. If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
44. A true man hates no one.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
45. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
46. The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
48. Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
49. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
50. The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
51. Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
52. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
53. We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
54. A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
55. I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
56. In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
57. The only victory over love is flight.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
58. 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
59. The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
60. The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
61. All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
62. If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
63. The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
64. It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
65. I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
66. I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
67. 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
68. Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
69. It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
70. Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
71. There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
72. Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
73. Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
74. Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
75. Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
76. A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
77. To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
78. When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
79. The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
80. Nothing is lost as long as courage remains.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
81. You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
82. What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
83. In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
84. Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
85. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
86. One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
87. It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
88. Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
89. We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
90. We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
91. It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
92. He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
93. Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
94. Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
95. Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
96. Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
97. If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
98. I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
- Napoleon Bonaparte
99. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
100. You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
