Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoléon Bonapartewas a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth15 August 1769
CityAjaccio, France
CountryFrance
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.