Napoleon Bonaparte

“Imagination rules the world.”

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

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

“I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”

“A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.”

“Respect the burden.”

“In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.”

“Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.”

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”

“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.”

“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”

“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”

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

“There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.”

“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”

“An army marches on its stomach.”

“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”

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