500 Quotes by Napoleon

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

Great men grow tired of contentedness.

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.