« All Mean Quotes · Napoleon Bonaparte's Page
Mean Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
- Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.
- Lack is more in means, than in principles.
- Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where…
- Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
- Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.
- What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each…
- In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
- As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary…
- When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
- When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams