Top 500 Napoleon Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”

— Napoleon

102. “The secret of war lies in the communications.”

— Napoleon

103. “The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.”

— Napoleon

104. “I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.”

— Napoleon

105. “There shall be no Alps.”

— Napoleon

106. “My enemies make appointments at my tomb.”

— Napoleon

107. “There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.”

— Napoleon

108. “Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.”

— Napoleon

109. “That man made me miss my destiny.”

— Napoleon

110. “From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.”

— Napoleon

111. “It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

— Napoleon

112. “A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

— Napoleon

113. “The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.”

— Napoleon

114. “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.”

— Napoleon

115. “Great ambition is the passion of a great character.”

— Napoleon

116. “The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.”

— Napoleon

117. “Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.”

— Napoleon

118. “We walk faster when we walk alone.”

— Napoleon

119. “Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.”

— Napoleon

120. “A true man hates no one.”

— Napoleon

121. “Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.”

— Napoleon

122. “Man will believe anything, as long as it’s not in the bible.”

— Napoleon

123. “Space we can recover; time never.”

— Napoleon

124. “I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.”

— Napoleon

125. “The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”

— Napoleon

126. “I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.”

— Napoleon

127. “You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.”

— Napoleon

128. “I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.”

— Napoleon

129. “Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”

— Napoleon

130. “I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.”

— Napoleon

131. “A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.”

— Napoleon

132. “The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.”

— Napoleon

133. “I have only one counsel for you – be master.”

— Napoleon

134. “There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate.”

— Napoleon

135. “Men are ruled by toys.”

— Napoleon

136. “Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.”

— Napoleon

137. “If you know a country’s geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.”

— Napoleon

138. “My downfall raises me to infinite heights.”

— Napoleon

139. “No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.”

— Napoleon

140. “Nothing is lost as long as courage remains.”

— Napoleon

141. “Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.”

— Napoleon

142. “Great battles are won with artillery.”

— Napoleon

143. “To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.”

— Napoleon

144. “God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.”

— Napoleon

145. “In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!”

— Napoleon

146. “An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don’t wash.”

— Napoleon

147. “In war it is not men, but the man who counts.”

— Napoleon

148. “A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.”

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

150. “An empty throne always tempts me.”

— Napoleon