Napoleon Bonaparte on Creativity Quotes

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another."

"If I had not been born Napoleon, I should have wished to be born Alexander."

"Genius is the ability to see the objective through the fog of war."

"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want now."

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less chary of the latter than the former."

"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."

"The secret of war lies in the communications."

"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."

"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

"In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one."

"The first quality of a commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things."

"The invention of printing has changed the world. It has given a new soul to the people."

"I have only one passion, only one mistress: and that is France; I sleep with her."

"Imagination rules the world."

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

"The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"Circumstances? I make circumstances!"

"The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point where the enemy is attacked."

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."

"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."

"A man of genius is a meteor designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."

"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest."

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

"True character stands out in great moments. One should never judge a man by his ordinary actions."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

"He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat."

"The human mind is capable of everything. It is only a matter of knowing how to use it."

"Great men are never cruel without necessity."

"Everything on earth is soon forgotten, except the opinion we leave of ourselves printed on the minds of men."