My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of… — 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
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him… — 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
“At the beginning of a campaign it is important to consider whether or not to move forward; but when one has taken… — 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
