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Letter "N" » Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
«Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
announce, announces, announcing, arouse, arousing, awake, Bad News, Good News, immediately, instant, In the press, news, presses, press on
«The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
battlefield, battlefields, both, constant, constants, controls, enemies, From Chaos, scene, The Winner, winner
«I made all my generals out of mud.»
«When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
attempt, enterprises, level, reducing
«If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
giver, givers, The Sun, universal, Universals
«Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.»
«In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
accepted, at hand, govern, inevitable, materials, more or less, The Question, to advantage, turned, valid
«The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Conquest
| Keywords:
conquests, permanent, regrets
«An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.»
«I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.»
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