Encounters Quote by Douglas MacArthur Download Open image “No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.” — Douglas MacArthur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Encounters Enemy Firsts Plans Strategy
Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Proverbially, no military plan survives contact with the enemy. That is never truer than when there is no plan to begin with.” — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force, — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Copy Share Image
No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it… — Soko Morinaga Copy Share Image
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
