Order Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I…

— 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

Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except…

— 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