English quotes and translations about Napoleon

"Victory belongs to the most persevering." Persistence will lead to success.

"Adversity is the midwife of genius." Adversity creates genius.

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains." The so-called genius is to constantly bear pain.

"Men are more easily governed through their vices than their virtues."

"Circumstances? I make circumstances!" Heroes make circumstances.

"Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities." People often only think of their needs, but never their abilities.

"My motto has always been: a career open to all talents, without distinction of birth." My motto is: a career open to all talents, without distinction of birth.

"Men are moved by only two levers: fear and self interest." Fear and self interest can motivate people.

"Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions."Be successful! I only judge heroes by their success or failure.

"I like honest men of all colors."

"I start out by believing the worst." I always prepare for the worst.

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die." It requires more courage to survive than to die.

"The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast."The bullet that can kill me has not yet been cast.

"I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest." I have made all the plans, and leave the rest to God.

"Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined."

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." Glory is fleeting, but ordinary is eternal.

"God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles."

　"If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have liked to have been born Alexander." If I were not Napoleon today, I would like to be Alexander.

"Imagination rules the world." What rules the world is imagination.

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means." There is a huge gap between a person's plan and practice, which is a manifestation of madness.

"The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future." Smart people speak of the present, stupid people speak of the past, and fools speak of the future.

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. "Rather than pity a person later, it is better to laugh at him first.

"When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna."Once you set out to take Vienna, take her!

　"What I did is immense. What I had decided to do, and what I had projected were still more so" What I did was a big undertaking, and so were my original decisions and plans.

"The word 'impossible' is not in my dictionary." The word "impossible" is not found in my dictionary.

"I wished to found a European system, a European Code of Laws, a European judiciary; there would be but one people in Europe." , and race.

"The French complain of everything, and always." The French complain of everything throughout their lives.

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

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

" Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. "Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. "A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything." He who dares to speak can do it.

"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

"I reign only through the fear I inspire."

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