Von Moltke Quotes

#1. No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

Mike Cohn

#2. In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#3. In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#4. Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.

Todd Park

#5. I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.

Courtney Love

#6. No plan survives the battle field.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#7. The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#8. No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force,

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#9. Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.

Neil Clark Warren

#10. Since National Socialism came to power, I have striven to make its consequences milder for its victims and to prepare the way for a change. In that, my conscience drove me
and in the end, that is a man's duty.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#11. The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#12. I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.

Andrew Lansley

#13. Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#14. Strategy is a system of expedients

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#15. The reason is best summed up by Susannah's thought as she prepares to tell Blaine the first riddle of their contest: It is hard to begin. There's nothing in these pages that I agree with more.

Stephen King

#16. Every war is a national misfortune.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke