Men Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Time is the great art of man.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are lead by trifles.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are ruled by toys.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are led by trifles.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Jesus Chris was more than man.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the success which makes great men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all…

— Napoleon Bonaparte