Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

In every fight, some fall.

At last I have won the Spanish war.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.