Napoleon Bonaparte on Deep Work Quotes

"When you have an army to lead, you must have no other thought but the army."

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength."

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

"Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting."

"If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering on an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur."

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

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

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."

"Genius is the ability to carry out the ideas of others."

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

"Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. On board H.M.S. Bellerophon (August 1815) [specific citation needed]"

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

"I have only one passion, only one mistress: it is France; I sleep with her. She has never failed me."

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

"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted."

"I am never so well as when I have much to do."

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

"It is not enough to be in the right; one must also have the power to enforce it."

"Different matters are arranged in my head as in a wardrobe. I can open one drawer and close another as I please, without ever becoming confused."

"Concentration of force at the decisive point is the secret of the art of war."

"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

"The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory."

"I work all the time, at dinner, in the theater. I wake up at night in order to work."

"Success is the most convincing talker in the world."

"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."

"The art of war is a simple art; everything is in the execution."

"The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope."

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

"The first quality of a commander-in-chief is a cool head, which receives a just impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news."

"The human mind is a field of battle, where the passions and the reason are constantly in conflict."