Battle Quote by Simon Schama

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

— Charles de Gaulle

PLEASE REPOST IN HONER OF THOSE WHO ARE BATTLING CANCER OR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THE BATTLE...AND FOR THOSE WHO WON THE BATTLE!

— Camilia

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

— Anonymous

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

— Anonymous

“Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

— Arthur Wellesley Wellington

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

— Robert Jordan

“Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.”

— Karen Essex

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

— Ferdinand Foch

“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were…

— Leo Tolstoy

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as…

— Frederick Douglass

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

— Sherwin B. Nuland