You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
