My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Interpretation
Embrace challenges as opportunities for action and resilience.
This quote by Ferdinand Foch emphasizes the importance of courage and initiative in the face of adversity. Instead of succumbing to despair when the situation appears dire, Foch advocates for seizing the moment to attack, suggesting that even in retreat, there lies an opportunity to change the course of events through bold action.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.
It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.
First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'
I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
I've had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O'Connor told me, 'Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you'll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.'
It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.
COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.
[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through all of those already, in silence, except death. And I remind myself all the time now, that if I were to have been born mute, and had maintained an oath of silence my whole life for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die.
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