Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Napoleon Bonaparte
Age: 52 †
Born: 1769
Born: January 1
Died: 1821
Died: January 1
Art Collector
Emperor
Militant
Military Leader
Military Officer
Politician
Sovereign
Statesman
Statesperson
Aiacciu
Napoléon Bonaparte
Le Petit Caporal
Le Corse
Napoleone di Buonaparte
Napoleon I
by the Grace of God and the Constitutions
Emperor of the French and King of Italy
Empereur des Français Napoléon I
Napoleon Buonaparte
emperador dels francesos Napoleó I
Napoleone Bonaparte
Napoleone Buonaparte
Emperador de Francia Napoleón I
Napoleon I
Na
Always
Mediocrity
Men
Enterprise
Attempt
Level
Levels
Small
Ends
Enterprises
Great
Reducing
More quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes
Napoleon Bonaparte
We are nothing but by the law.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I have made all the calculations fate will do the rest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
Napoleon Bonaparte
High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot
Napoleon Bonaparte
Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Audacity succeeds as often as it fails in life it has an even chance.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
Napoleon Bonaparte
Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We are either kings or pawns of men
Napoleon Bonaparte
