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.
I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.
The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.
In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.
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