Quotes About Victory

I have destroyed the Austrian army by simply marching

Champagne. In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it.

concentration of strength, activity, and a firm resolve to perish gloriously.

Ma vraie gloire n'est pas d'avoir gagné quarante batailles. Waterloo effacera le souvenir de tant de victoires. Ce que rien n'effacera, ce qui vivra éternellement, c'est mon Code civil.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

Las batallas contra las mujeres son las únicas que se ganan huyendo

Do you know, Fontanes, what astonishes me most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.

There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

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

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat

Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.

If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.

My most splendid campaign was that of March 20; not a single shot was fired.

In war, luck is half in everything.

To plan to reserve cavalry for the finish of the battle, is to have no conception of the power of combined infantry and cavalry charges, either for attack or for defense.