Top 500 Napoleon Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”

— Napoleon

202. “Great men grow tired of contentedness.”

— Napoleon

203. “A general must be a charlatan.”

— Napoleon

204. “One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.”

— Napoleon

205. “Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.”

— Napoleon

206. “The process of quitting smoking doesn’t end with the last cigarette. It’s not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit.”

— Napoleon

207. “Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.”

— Napoleon

208. “I am a monarch of God’s creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.”

— Napoleon

209. “Go Sir, gallop and don’t forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.”

— Napoleon

210. “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

211. “Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.”

— Napoleon

212. “From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.”

— Napoleon

213. “What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.”

— Napoleon

214. “Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.”

— Napoleon

215. “The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.”

— Napoleon

216. “The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot.”

— Napoleon

217. “Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.”

— Napoleon

218. “To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”

— Napoleon

219. “In Russia there are no roads – only areas.”

— Napoleon

220. “Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.”

— Napoleon

221. “Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth’s produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.”

— Napoleon

222. “Which is heavier: a soldier’s pack or a slave’s chains?”

— Napoleon

223. “America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.”

— Napoleon

224. “I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.”

— Napoleon

225. “War is the business of barbarians.”

— Napoleon

226. “Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.”

— Napoleon

227. “If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.”

— Napoleon

228. “It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.”

— Napoleon

229. “Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.”

— Napoleon

230. “In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.”

— Napoleon

231. “Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.”

— Napoleon

232. “Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”

— Napoleon

233. “It’s the people who are in the wrong who get angry.”

— Napoleon

234. “The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”

— Napoleon

235. “Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.”

— Napoleon

236. “The French complain of everything, and always.”

— Napoleon

237. “I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”

— Napoleon

238. “Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.”

— Napoleon

239. “Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.”

— Napoleon

240. “A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.”

— Napoleon

241. “A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.”

— Napoleon

242. “What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.”

— Napoleon

243. “Liberty and equality are magical words.”

— Napoleon

244. “There are two levers for moving men – interest and fear.”

— Napoleon

245. “I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815.”

— Napoleon

246. “To be believed make the truth unbelievable.”

— Napoleon

247. “It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.”

— Napoleon

248. “I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.”

— Napoleon

249. “Lack is more in means, than in principles.”

— Napoleon

250. “Un croquis vaut mieux qu.”

— Napoleon