“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
— Napoleon
“History is written by the winners.”
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
“The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of the good people.”
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”
“There is a joy in danger.”
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”
“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
“Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can fly.”
“Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.”
“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
“If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion.”
“The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics.”
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
“Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation.”
“I see only my objective – the obstacles must give way.”
“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.”
“Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.”
“We are either kings or pawns of men.”
“Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
“Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”
“The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.”
“Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.”
“You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
“You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.”
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
“Imagination governs the world.”
“The word impossible is not in my dictionary.”
“When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.”
“Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.”
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
“I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.”
“I start out by believing the worst.”
“An army marches on its stomach.”
“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.”
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
“Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.”
“One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.”
“I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.”
“Impossible is the word found only in a fool’s dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible...”
“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.”
“A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.”
“If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.”
“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
“Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war.”
“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”
“A starving army is actually worse than none.”
“Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.”
“The only victory over love is flight.”
“Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.”
“In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.”
“It’s the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.”
“Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.”
“I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?”
“The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.”
“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.”
“Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.”
“The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.”
“The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.”
“Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.”
“I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.”
“The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.”
“Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.”
“It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.”
“You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.”
“A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.”
“After me, the Revolution – or, rather the ideas which formed it – will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.”
“The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.”
“Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.”
“I have never loved anyone for love’s sake except, perhaps, Josephine – a little.”
“Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.”
“I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it.”
“Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.”
“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
“If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.”
“In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.”
“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
“Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.”
“I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.”
“That man made me miss my destiny.”
“My enemies make appointments at my tomb.”
“From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.”
“Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.”
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