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Napoleon Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“The soldier must conquer the pain and the melancholy of the passions.”
— Napoleon, Napoleon by Emil Ludwig
Tagged: Life
“To be hurried away by every event is to have no political system at all.”
— Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: strategy
“At the commencement of a campaign, to advance or not to advance is a matter for grave consideration, but when once the offensive has been assumed, it must be sustained to the last extremity.”
— Napoleon, The Military Maxims of Napoleon
Tagged: strategy
“Never do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.”
— Napoleon, The Military Maxims of Napoleon
Tagged: strategy
“The lesson he teaches is that which vigor always teaches—that there is room for it.”
— Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: strategy
“The fortune of war, dear Massena, changes from day to day. Tomorrow or later, we shall win back what you have just lost.”
— Napoleon, Emil Ludwig, Napoleon
Tagged: strategy
“So divine an illumination is always linked to youth and productivity; and in very truth, Napoleon was one of the most productive men that ever lived.”
— Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Napoleon
Tagged: strategy
“The first qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation.”
— Napoleon, Battle Dress
Tagged: Life
“You must not fight too often with one enemy or you will teach him all your art at war.”
— Napoleon, Representative Men
Tagged: strategy
“Two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other: a moment of panic occurs and that moment must be turned to advantage.”
— Napoleon, Thrift
Tagged: Seize The Moment
“On s'engage et puis on vac. (One jumps into the fray and then figures it out.)”
— Napoleon, Our Revolution
Tagged: strategy
“The first qualification in a general-in-chief is a cool head, that is, a head which receives just impressions, and estimates things and objects at their real value. He must not allow himself to be elated by good news or depressed by bad.”
— Napoleon, The Military Maxims of Napoleon
Tagged: strategy
“From the tops of those pyramids, forty centuries looks down on you.”
— Napoleon, Walden: A Fully Annotated Addition
Tagged: strategy
“Soldiers! We have forced marches to make, battles to fight, dangers to encounter; but, with firmness victory will be ours. The rights, the honour, and the happiness of the country will be recovered!

To every Frenchman who has a heart, the moment is now arrived to conquer or to die.”
— Napoleon, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo
Tagged: strategy
“He will not go far who knows from the first whither he is going.”
— Napoleon, Napoleon
Tagged: strategy
“Everything is simple and definite; there is no much fixity of purpose that everyone wishes to comply. You are vassals, but free. I am your master but I will protect you. Five hundred pieces of ordinance and the friendship of France. Such is my will. Then it is all over.”
— Napoleon, Napoleon
Tagged: strategy
“Every moment lost gives an opportunity for misfortune.”
— Napoleon, Thrift
Tagged: Seize The Moment
“Not blood-thirsty, but not sparing of blood.”
— Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: strategy
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