Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes About Soldiers

Quotes about: Soldiers

• When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Eye, Fire, Baptized In

• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Veterans Day, War, Work

• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Fighting

• The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, School, Soldier

• This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dog, Grief, Home

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Determination, Soldier, Endurance

• Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Men, People

  "Précis des guerres de César, écrit à Sainte-Hélène sous la dictée de l'empereur" edited by Comte Marchand, (p. 237), 1836.

• Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Work, Winning, Soldier

• To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Soldier

• Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Memories, Men

• The worse the man, the better the soldier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Soldier, He Man

• All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Soldier, Battle

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.70, Courier Corporation

• Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Soldier, Empowerment

• I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sleep, Soldier, Battle

• Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Long, Soldier

• When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, War, Men

• It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Brave, Soldier

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.65, Courier Corporation

• Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Taken, Mean

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.63, Courier Corporation

• I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Lunch, Soldier, Matter

• Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Soldier, Century

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.63, Fireship Press

• I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Fire

• Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Loss, Rights, Order

• An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Soldier, Soup

• In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Perseverance, War, Thinking

• An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Soldier, Emperor

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