Top 500 Napoleon Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.”

— Napoleon

102. “There shall be no Alps.”

— Napoleon

103. “If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.”

— Napoleon

104. “We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”

— Napoleon

105. “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

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

114. “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

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

117. “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

118. “A true man hates no one.”

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

121. “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

122. “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

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

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

— Napoleon

132. “Who saves his country violates no law.”

— Napoleon

133. “An army’s effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.”

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

139. “The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.”

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

141. “Great battles are won with artillery.”

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

145. “Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.”

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

148. “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

149. “An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.”

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon