500 Quotes by Napoleon

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers.

How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares ‘God wills it thus.’ Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.