In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. — 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
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined. — 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
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric… — 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
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 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
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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 Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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 Image
