In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. — 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
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers 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
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of… — 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
A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“War is becoming an anachronism; if we have battled in every part of the continent it was because two opposing social orders… — 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
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men:… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future. — 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
