Napoleon Bonaparte Soldier Quotations

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

Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

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

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

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

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

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

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

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

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

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.

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

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

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

The worse the man, the better the soldier.