976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Let the path be open to talent.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions