Napoleon Bonaparte
83 quotations
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Let the path be open to talent.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
I made all my generals out of mud.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Imagination rules the world.
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
A leader is a dealer in hope.