Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
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
Plenty
Talent
High
Action
Character
Always
Men
Deficient
France
More quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Soldiers generally win battles generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I can no longer obey I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte
After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Space we can recover time never.
Napoleon Bonaparte
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.
Napoleon Bonaparte
