Army Quote by Charles de Gaulle Download Open image “Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.” — Charles de Gaulle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Army Brilliant Failure Mistake Plans Strategy Victory
Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. — Polybius Copy Share Image
Victory is often achieved by people who don't see failure as a bad thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes:… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
We're too often told that our mistakes are ours alone, but victory is a shared benefit. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen a dictator on a run-off ballot? [Responding to the charges of a dictatorial bent, after being forced into a run-off… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
Every army in the history of the world has always had some deserters, usually much greater than we have today, because once again every… — Bryan Hilferty Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
I just read an article about how young American males feel uncomfortable appearing naked in front of each other in locker rooms. That was… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear.… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“The most important lesson that came out of Vietnam for me was that Marines take care of Marines.” — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't really have a set style or look. It's pretty much what I feel like wearing that day, from a floral-print dress… — Shay Mitchell Copy Share Image