Napoleon Bonaparte quotes

 quotes - Respect the burden.

“Respect the burden. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

 quotes - The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

 quotes - The French complain of everything, and always.

“The French complain of everything, and always. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

 quotes - The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte