45 Attrition Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous attrition quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational attrition quotes. Hopefully, these attrition quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your attrition knowledge!

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Famous Attrition Quotes

The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling. — Ovid

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. — Ovid

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. — Lucretius

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition. - Henry David Thoreau

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition. — Henry David Thoreau

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. — Plutarch

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction. — Meister Eckhart

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. — H. L. Mencken

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. - Bruce Lee

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. — Bruce Lee

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out. — Pol Pot

Aging, quite simply, is a loss of information. — David Sinclair

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance. — Mark Victor Hansen

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. — Lucretius

It is better to rust out than wear out. — George Whitefield

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. — Plutarch

Short Attrition Quotes

  • We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. — William Westmoreland
  • It is not labor that kills, but the small attritions of daily routine that wear us down. — Roy Bedichek
  • The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. — Walter Scott
  • Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea. — John Gimlette
  • Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles? — Jane Jacobs
  • The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease. — Yasser Arafat

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More Attrition Quotes

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. — Julie Bowen

Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game. — LaVell Edwards

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws. — Allen West

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips. — Scott Walker

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. — Howard Schultz

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category. — Michael Arad

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen. — Dax Shepard

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be. — Charles Bukowski

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle! — Henry Ward Beecher

War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste. — Kate Forsyth

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials. — Tom Sharpe

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins. — Will Durant

Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions. — Jim Dunnigan

I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more influence, including in regions in which we have special interests, such as the Middle East, from which they already obtain a great deal of their energy. And that region will be seeking some new superpower patron. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

It will be another disaster, after Irangate. Not only that, not only this longest Arab - Israeli confrontation: but also the most important and successful war of attrition which still continues in the south of Lebanon. — Yasser Arafat

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition. — Sylvester Stallone

The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice — Bob Benson

Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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