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“Coolness is the greatest quality in a man destined to command.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“Nothing augments a battalion like success.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“The keys of a fortress are worth the liberty of its garrison when it has resolved not to surrender itself. Thus it is always more advantageous to grant honorable terms of capitulation to a garrison which has shown a vigorous resistance, than to risk the chances of an assault.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“There is a joy in danger.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“Intelligence precedes force. Force itself is nothing without intelligence. In the heroic age the leader was the strongest man; with civilization he has become the most intelligent of the brave.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“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“The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“Success is the most convincing talker in the world.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“Death is a dreamless sleep.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“A Prince, criticised by his subjects, should never attempt to justify himself to them.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“In France, only the impossible is admired.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“Men who hesitate never succeed in their undertakings.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte“A new-born government must dazzle.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte• Title: Napoleon in His Own Words
• Author: Jules Bertaut (comp.)
• Type: Book
• Publisher: A.C. McClurg
• Publication time: 1916
• Publication place: Chicago, United States