Most Remarkable Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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

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

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

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

The army is the true nobility of our country.

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

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

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

Let the path be open to talent.

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

Imagination rules the world.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on. It is going on when you don’t have strength.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.