Solitude Quote by Eric Frank Russell

“Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.”

— David Bowles

“make my enemys brave and strong, so that, if defeated I will not be ashamed.”

— Plains Tribe

“this is not a time of retreat but rather resurgence. This is not a time for compromise but rather courage.”

— Mark Driscoll

“Or is what remains in me like a defeated army, Fleeing in disarray from victory already won?”

— Bonhoeffer Dietrich

“And often the result of daring greatly isn’t a victory march as much as it is a quiet sense of freedom mixed with a…

— Brené Brown

“A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.”

— Bernhard Schlink

“The promise of destroying an enemy so utterly is hard to resist.”

— Ginn Hale

“Now an enemy is never so near and consequently so threatening, as when he has completely disappeared.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“We always prepare ourselves for the previous enemy, even when we face an altogether new menace.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When there is no longer any possibility of running away, you realize how fiercely you can fight.”

— Ken Follett

“Relax now. That’s the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one’s leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions.”

— Alan Campbell

“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable - when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us…

— George Eliot