976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.

True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.