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Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the most luminous individuals in history of mankind. He was also a dedicated soldier, a grand tactician and an excellent supervisor. He used to write various quotes and speeches on different categories like business, inspirational, love and relationship. His quotes became popular among the common people and have influenced their lives in many ways.
Here are some of the best quotes mustered from the collection of quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Chance is the providence of adventurers.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
A true man hates no one.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
All religions have been made by men.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
An army marches on its stomach.
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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