Joseph Joffre famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith — and faith will triumph.
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If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.
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The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.
-- Joseph Joffre
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All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
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There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
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The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.
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Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
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