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Emperor Inspirational Quotes (516)

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Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is the success which makes great men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We should wash our dirty linen at home.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing if he is a king he is lost.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Keep cool and you will command everyone.
Justinian I
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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics
Napoleon Bonaparte
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An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations fate will do the rest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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