Napoleon quote: "If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow."

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
NAPOLEON

In my youth, I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. The great orators w...
NAPOLEON

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only B...
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
NAPOLEON

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
NAPOLEON

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
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Un croquis vaut mieux qu
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
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Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.]
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON I)

I want to the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make make trading much easier.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON I)

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a q...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON I)

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON I)

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut c...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON I)

All Italians are plunderers. [It., Gli Italiani tutti ladroni.] Not all but a good part. ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON I)

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON I)

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up h...
NAPOLEON HILL

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set...
NAPOLEON HILL

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
NAPOLEON HILL

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
NAPOLEON HILL

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my gen...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

All religions have been made by men.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your lo...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The army is the true nobility of our country.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

I have only one counsel for you - be master.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

England is a nation of shopkeepers.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

An army marches on its stomach.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

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

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

France has more need of me than I have need of France.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

A Constitution should be short and obscure.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
NAPOLEON HILL

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
NAPOLEON HILL

Money without brains is always dangerous.
NAPOLEON HILL

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you w...
NAPOLEON HILL

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to ...
NAPOLEON HILL

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
NAPOLEON HILL

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
NAPOLEON HILL

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not ...
NAPOLEON HILL

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don'...
NAPOLEON HILL

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools ...
NAPOLEON HILL

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is goin...
NAPOLEON HILL

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
NAPOLEON HILL

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been do...
NAPOLEON HILL

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
NAPOLEON HILL

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from m...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is...
NAPOLEON HILL

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
NAPOLEON HILL

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.
NAPOLEON HILL

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the g...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at lea...
NAPOLEON HILL

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
NAPOLEON HILL

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
NAPOLEON HILL

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
NAPOLEON HILL

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponde...
NAPOLEON HILL

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature ...
NAPOLEON HILL

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete f...
NAPOLEON HILL

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps so...
NAPOLEON HILL

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power ...
NAPOLEON HILL

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
NAPOLEON HILL

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
NAPOLEON HILL

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Men are lead by trifles.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
NAPOLEON HILL

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and...
NAPOLEON HILL

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ul...
NAPOLEON HILL

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, t...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The only victory over love is flight.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
NAPOLEON HILL

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
NAPOLEON HILL

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
NAPOLEON HILL

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to...
NAPOLEON HILL

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief ...
NAPOLEON HILL

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you ...
NAPOLEON HILL

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
NAPOLEON HILL

It is always your next move.
NAPOLEON HILL

You give before you get.
NAPOLEON HILL

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return mo...
NAPOLEON HILL

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
NAPOLEON HILL

Character is victory organized.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Capability means imagination...
NAPOLEON HILL

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
NAPOLEON HILL

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attr...
NAPOLEON HILL

Ideas... they have the power
NAPOLEON HILL

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
NAPOLEON HILL

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring we...
NAPOLEON HILL

Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature...
NAPOLEON HILL

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
NAPOLEON HILL

The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to...
NAPOLEON HILL

Indecision is the seedling of fear.
NAPOLEON HILL

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
NAPOLEON HILL

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
NAPOLEON HILL

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
NAPOLEON HILL

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a f...
NAPOLEON HILL

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those reques...
NAPOLEON HILL

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...
NAPOLEON HILL

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are consta...
NAPOLEON HILL

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more se...
NAPOLEON HILL

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for h...
NAPOLEON HILL

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
NAPOLEON HILL

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
NAPOLEON HILL

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
NAPOLEON HILL

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowled...
NAPOLEON HILL

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.
NAPOLEON HILL

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
NAPOLEON HILL

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Let the path be open to talent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Knowledge is only potential power.
NAPOLEON HILL

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him...
NAPOLEON HILL

Secrets travel fast in Paris.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Vengeance has no foresight.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Respect the burden.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent foreth...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Who saves his country violates no law.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

I made all my generals out of mud.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

A true man hates no one.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their med...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Medicines are only fit for old people.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are m...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, b...
NAPOLEON HILL

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
NAPOLEON HILL

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The French complain of everything, and always.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Public instruction should be the first object of government.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.

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If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.

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