Quotes About Napoleon

#1. If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.

Napoleon Hill

#2. The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

Napoleon Hill

#3. History paints the human heart.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.

Kevin Brownlow

#5. One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful

Napoleon Hill

#6. Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.

Donald Rumsfeld

#7. Men are led by trifles.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

Napoleon Hill

#9. There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

Napoleon Hill

#11. You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

Napoleon Hill

#12. Excuses tell me two things about a person; they aren't honest with themselves, or others, and they believe I can't see they are lying to both of us - Tom too tall Cunningham

Tom Cunningham

#13. MAN'S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

Napoleon Hill

#14. To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Napoleon Hill

#15. He is Jesus, only. God has revealed Himself to us through Jesus. Jesus is what God wanted us to know and to love. He is not Napoleon the Great. He is not Alexander the Great. He is Jesus only. He is enough. My purpose in life is to worship Jesus and, in so doing, become more Christ-like

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#16. When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

Thomas Szasz

#17. The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

Napoleon Hill

#18. (Whatever human mind can conceive, it can achieve!)

Napoleon Hill

#19. You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind

Napoleon Hill

#20. Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though.

Tom Cunningham

#21. Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

Napoleon Hill

#22. It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Napoleon Hill

#23. Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

Napoleon Hill

#24. A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#25. Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction.

Napoleon Hill

#26. Without cavalry, battles are without result.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#27. A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word "impossible," and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.

Napoleon Hill

#28. Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

#29. A provisional government was appointed on April 1 (it consisted mainly of Talleyrand's whist partners), and the following day the Senate, on Talleyrand's urging, declared Napoleon deposed.

J. Christopher Herold

#30. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

Napoleon Hill

#31. Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#32. No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.

Napoleon Hill

#33. Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#34. What the mind cab conceive, it can achieve

Napoleon Hill

#35. The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

Napoleon Hill

#36. [E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

Napoleon Hill

#37. The emotion of sex is an "irresistible force," against which there can be no such opposition as an "immovable body." When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action.

Napoleon Hill

#38. The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

Napoleon Hill

#39. It isn't defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

Napoleon Hill

#40. If your environment is not to your liking, change it!

Napoleon Hill

#41. Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#42. History is a myth that men agree to believe.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#43. He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#44. Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.

Napoleon Hill

#45. Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#46. Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#47. The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

Napoleon Bonaparte

#48. Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#49. Visualization Of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire: The Second Step toward Riches

Napoleon Hill

#50. You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

#51. Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.

Napoleon Hill

#52. All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

Napoleon Hill

#53. While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#54. The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#55. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

Napoleon Hill

#56. Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.

Napoleon Hill

#57. Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.

Napoleon Hill

#58. Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.

Napoleon Hill

#59. The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The

Napoleon Hill

#60. War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#61. Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

A.J.P. Taylor

#62. Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.

Napoleon Hill

#63. The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

David Frum

#64. A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#65. My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#66. True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#67. If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion

Napoleon Bonaparte

#68. Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

Napoleon Bonaparte

#69. Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.

Napoleon Hill

#70. There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

Napoleon Hill

#71. Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

David McCullough

#72. Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.

Napoleon Hill

#73. Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

Napoleon Hill

#74. Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.

Napoleon Hill

#75. Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#76. An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#77. In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#78. IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

Napoleon Hill

#79. A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits

Napoleon Bonaparte

#80. Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

#81. All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Napoleon Hill

#82. Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#83. A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#84. The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#85. The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#86. 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

#87. You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'

Napoleon Hill

#88. Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Napoleon Hill

#89. The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Napoleon Hill

#90. The way to success is the way to action, based upon organized thinking followed by action, action, action.

Napoleon Hill

#91. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#92. Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Napoleon Hill

#93. One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

Napoleon Hill

#94. It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#95. I could just envision myself trying to be sexy and ending up looking like the kid from Napoleon Dynamite.

Nicole Jacquelyn

#96. Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#97. As Carlyle put it - All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been - it is lying in matchless preservation in the pages of books.

Napoleon Hill

#98. The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

Napoleon Hill

#99. You cannot treat with all the world at once.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#100. I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

Napoleon Bonaparte