Ability is of little account without opportunity. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Ability)

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Ambition)

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Argument)

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Army and Navy)

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Battles)

The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Caution)

Chance is the providence of adventurers. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Chance)

Character is victory organized. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Character)

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Christians and Christianity)

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Competition)

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Conflict)

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Conscience)

A Constitution should be short and obscure. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Constitutions)

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Control)

I have only one counsel for you -- be master. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Control)

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Control)

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Courage)

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Courage)

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Crime and Criminals)

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Death and Dying)

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Decisions)

Let the path be open to talent. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Direction)

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Doctors)

My downfall raises me to infinite heights. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Failure)

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Fanatics and Fanaticism)

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Fear)

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Fear)

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Fear)

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Freedom of Speech)

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Future)

I made all my generals out of mud. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Generals)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Glory)

The art of government is not to let me grow stale. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Government)

Public instruction should be the first object of government. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Government)

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Government)

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Greatness)

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Greatness)

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Greatness)

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Heroes and Heroism)

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - History and Historians)

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Humor)

The human race is governed by its imagination. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Imagination)

Imagination rules the world. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Imagination)

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Impossibility)

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Insanity)

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Jesus Christ)

A leader is a dealer in hope. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Leaders and Leadership)

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Leaders and Leadership)

Men are lead by trifles. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Leaders and Leadership)

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Leaders and Leadership)

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Leaders and Leadership)

The only victory over love is flight. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Love)

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Management)

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Management)

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Martyrdom)

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Medicine)

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Medicine)

Medicines are only fit for old people. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Medicine)

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Medicine)

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Mediocrity)

A true man hates no one. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Men)

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Mothers)

There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Motivation)

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Music)

The French complain of everything, and always. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Nations)

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Newspapers)

Occupation is the scythe of time. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Occupation)

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Oppression)

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Order)

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Organization)

Who saves his country violates no law. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Patriotism)

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Peace)

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Police)

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Politicians and Politics)

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Politicians and Politics)

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Politicians and Politics)

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Poverty and The Poor)

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Power)

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Power)

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Power)

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Promises)

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Promises)

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Public Opinion)

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Quality)

Respect the burden. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Respectability)

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Respectability)

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Riches)

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Risk)

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Royalty)

Secrets travel fast in Paris. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Secrets)

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Spirit and Spirituality)

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Strategies)

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Taste)

Truth alone wounds. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Truth)

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Tyranny)

Vengeance has no foresight. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Vengeance)

Victory belongs to the most persevering. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Victory)

The most dangerous moment comes with victory. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Victory)

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone. - (Bonaparte, Napoleon - Wisdom)