Top 500 Napoleon Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.”

— Napoleon

402. “The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.”

— Napoleon

403. “Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.”

— Napoleon

404. “The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.”

— Napoleon

405. “Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.”

— Napoleon

406. “A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.”

— Napoleon

407. “One bad general is worth two good ones.”

— Napoleon

408. “Treason is a matter of dates.”

— Napoleon

409. “There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.”

— Napoleon

410. “The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.”

— Napoleon

411. “Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.”

— Napoleon

412. “I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity...”

— Napoleon

413. “You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.”

— Napoleon

414. “I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.”

— Napoleon

415. “This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.”

— Napoleon

416. “I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”

— Napoleon

417. “A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.”

— Napoleon

418. “Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.”

— Napoleon

419. “The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.”

— Napoleon

420. “I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”

— Napoleon

421. “A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.”

— Napoleon

422. “Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.”

— Napoleon

423. “Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.”

— Napoleon

424. “The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.”

— Napoleon

425. “I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.”

— Napoleon

426. “What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!”

— Napoleon

427. “I haven’t known 6 days of happiness in my life.”

— Napoleon

428. “Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits.”

— Napoleon

429. “In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.”

— Napoleon

430. “My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.”

— Napoleon

431. “It is the success which makes great men.”

— Napoleon

432. “Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”

— Napoleon

433. “I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers.”

— Napoleon

434. “It’s not the size of the army but the power within the army.”

— Napoleon

435. “War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.”

— Napoleon

436. “You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.”

— Napoleon

437. “I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.”

— Napoleon

438. “More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.”

— Napoleon

439. “The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.”

— Napoleon

440. “Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”

— Napoleon

441. “The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.”

— Napoleon

442. “Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.”

— Napoleon

443. “Without cavalry, battles are without result.”

— Napoleon

444. “Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.”

— Napoleon

445. “It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.”

— Napoleon

446. “Love is the idler’s occupation, the warrior’s relaxation, and the sovereign’s ruination.”

— Napoleon

447. “I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.”

— Napoleon

448. “Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.”

— Napoleon

449. “I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.”

— Napoleon

450. “The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.”

— Napoleon