Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

Men are ruled by toys.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.