13 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Ambition

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on ambition

1. Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

7. 'Impossible' n'est pas francais.

29. More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

47. A man like me troubles himself little about the lives of a million men

56. Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

73. Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his pack.

85. Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform either very great actions or very bad ones; all depends upon the principles which direct him.

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

98. I have been called upon to change the face of the world.

120. It is not enough that I succeed - everyone else must fail.- Adapted from Hannibal.

140. Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

199. We must not take up arms for vain prospects of grandeur, nor the allurements of conquest.

210. In early life he may have been a sincere republican; but he hated anarchy and disorder, and, before his campaign in Italy was over, he had begun to plan to make himself ruler of France. He worked systematically to transform the people's earlier ardor for liberty into a passion for military glory and plunder.