Bonaparte Napóleon idézet

oldal 3

„Ha mindent megtettél, amire képességeidből telik, ember vagy. Ha mindent megtettél, amit akartál, akkor isten.”

„Aki attól fél, hogy legyőzik, annak biztos a vereség.”

„A védekezésből a támadásba való átállás a háború egyik legkényesebb művelete.”

„Az embereket csak két erő köti össze: a félelem és az érdek.”

„Ne szakítsd félbe az ellenséged, mikor éppen hibát követ el.”

„A legnagyobb erkölcstelenség az, amikor valaki olyan dologba fog, amihez nem ért.”

„A nagy emberek meteorok: felemésztik önmagukat, hogy fénnyel árasszák el a világot.”

„Ha békét tudnék kötni, arra jóval büszkébb lennék, mint a katonai sikerek révén szerzett kétes hírnévre…”

„Már nincs messze az idő, amikor tudatára fogunk jutni annak, hogy Angliában csak úgy szállhatunk partra, ha előbb meghódítjuk Egyiptomot.”

„Röviden és homályosan fogalmazzatok!”

„A politikában ismeretlen fogalom a szív, csak a fej számít.”

„Amelyik hadvezér ütközet előtt túl sokat törődik a tartalékokkal, azt biztosan legyőzik.”

„A szerelem a közembernek elfoglaltság, a harcosnak szórakozás, az uralkodónak üdülés.”

„Csak a korgó gyomrok forradalma veszedelmes.”

„A bátorságot nem lehet hamisítani, olyan erény, amely nem ismer képmutatást.”

“We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.”

“A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.”

“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”

“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”

“The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.”

“I ought to have died at Waterloo”

“The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.”

“Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.”

“The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.”

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

“Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.”

“All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.”

“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.”

“I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.”

“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

“Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.”

“An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.”

“The future destiny of the child is always the work of his mother. Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”

“From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.”

“Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. … other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.”

“One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“The Corsican ogre has just landed at the Juan Gulf.”

“Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.”

“If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds…. I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.”

“The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.”

“How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.”

“Give them a whiff of grapeshot.”

“Man achieves in life only by commanding the capabilities nature has given him, or by creating them within himself by education and by knowing how to profit by the difficulties encountered.”

“Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.”