30 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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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
People Writing About Attrition
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 William Westmoreland |
33 | 430 |
 Walter Scott |
306 | 1483 |
 John Gimlette |
59 | 14 |
 Jane Jacobs |
125 | 3063 |
 Yasser Arafat |
82 | 1415 |
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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