Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

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

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

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

With audacity one can undertake anything.

As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.