Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
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
Firmness
Unnecessary
Sufficient
Commitment
Politics
Power
Rashness
More quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic) a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother
Napoleon Bonaparte
Rascality has limits stupidity has not.
Napoleon Bonaparte
