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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Break Up, Hope, Courage
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Mistake, Army, Navy
Attributed in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Positive, War, New Beginnings
Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.107, Fireship Press

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Should Have, Ideas, Enemy

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Interesting, Social Justice, Oppression

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Country, Leaving, Glory

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Clever, Believe, Policy

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Change, Peace, Inspiration

Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military, Artillery, Obstinate
"The Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations". Book Robert Heinl, Jr., 1966.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage, Suffering, Dies

God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Power, Overcoming, Politics

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Attitude, Forgiving, Mind
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Block, Decision, Saint

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Winning, Keys, Focus

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Self Improvement, Use, Treasure

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Success, War, Greatest Victory
"Your Mind Power Unleashed" by Thomas W. Foster, (p. 123), 2001.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom
"Famous Sayings and their Authors" by Edward Latham, (p. 138), 1906.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Enemy, Chaos, Winner

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Aphrodisiac
Attributed in Constant Louis Wairy, Memoires de Constant, Premier Valet de l'Empereur (1830 - 1831) See Graham Greene 6; Kissinger 3

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Clever, Opportunity, Men

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Sweet, War, Smell

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Life, Art, Architecture
"L'Arche de Noé" by Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, (p. 48), 1968.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Fall, Support You, Ideas
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Country, America, Folly

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