Joseph Joffre quotes

“The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith — and faith will triumph.”
-- Joseph Joffre

Source : Speech at the unveiling of a statue of Lafayette in Brooklyn (1917), as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, 1922.

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“If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.”
-- Joseph Joffre

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“The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.”
-- Joseph Joffre

Source : General Joseph Joffre's proclamation, September 6, 1914.

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“All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”

“It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.”

“There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.”

Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at the California Republican Party Convention in Sacramento, California, www.keyesarchives.com. February 27, 1999.

“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”

“I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.”

“The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.”

“Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.”

“Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.”

“Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.”