Quotes About Resilience

Champagne. In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it.

the first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

I see only the objective, the obstacles must give way.

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

In France, only the impossible is admired.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island without a beach.

You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers