Napoleon Military Quotes

#1. Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest
We want sanitary food, planetary conquest

U-God

#2. If you suffer some losses, remember that after humility a reward from God will always follow

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.

Millicent Fenwick

#5. I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids.

Florence Converse

#6. Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. We'd be Fives together, like you said.

Kiera Cass

#8. I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

Joanne Harris

#12. Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot ...

Napoleon Bonaparte

#13. The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

William Cobbett

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. For a moment ... I might have been the daughter she'd hoped for ... she might have been my teacher and my guide ... We might never have been enemies at all.

Naomi Novik

#16. I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

Robbie Robertson

#17. The Agna, liberating instructions of the 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], purifies the mind. Knowledge of the Self [self realization] will give the mind, solutions in every circumstance.

Dada Bhagwan

#18. Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself - so long as other people leave him alone.]

Arthur Schopenhauer

#19. Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

Ettore Sottsass

#21. One might as well try to charge through a wall.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#22. I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

Katherine Paterson

#23. All language is a popularity contest.

Erin McKean

#24. To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#25. I'm not a firm believer of "mo' money mo' problems" - I think that's stupid. I think it's that problems are already there that can be exacerbated by more things you don't understand.

Chuck D

#26. There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#27. In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#28. To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#29. We had a majority in 1990, 1994, 1996, we lost it every time. You know why? Because we compromised ... We don't need a majority. We need an irate, tireless minority. We need people who are just going to stand for the truth.

Matt Shea

#30. What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.

Napoleon Bonaparte