Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Imagination governs the world.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre 's work will endure.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.