Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.
The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.
The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
Opportunities? I make opportunities.
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
Imagination rules the world.
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.
A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
To be believed make the truth unbelievable.
The worse the man, the better the soldier.
The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
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