500 Quotes by Napoleon

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

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.

To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.