Famous Quotes / Napoleon Bonaparte
146 Quotations by Napoleon Bonaparte
- 21. Chance is the providence of adventurers.
- 22. Character is victory organized.
- 23. Chief of the Army.
- 24. Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
- 25. Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- 26. Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
- 27. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- 28. Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
- 29. Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
- 30. Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
- 31. England is a nation of shopkeepers.
- 32. Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
- 33. Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.
- 34. Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent foreth ...
- 35. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
- 36. From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
- 37. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- 38. Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or v ...
- 39. Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
- 40. Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.