Best Esprit De Corps Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”

“If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.”

Ifs Heart Reason Body Spirit Felt Sports Known Captains Bruises Collision Esprit De Corps

Book:Collected Earlier Poems

Source: Collected Earlier Poems

“That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.”

Names Characteristics Esprit De Corps

Author:F. E. Adcock

“I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose - esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace - it's just been astonishing.”

People Purpose Dies Business Cases Products Higher Cost Motivated Sustainability Compelling Astonishing Marketplace Goodwill Higher Purpose Esprit De Corps

Author:Ray Anderson

“The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people”

People Humans Hands Enemy Depravity Esprit De Corps

Author:Wendell Phillips

“However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be done to nationalize wars, never will it be possible to do away with the professionalism of the business; and if that cannot be done, then those who belong to it will always look upon themselves as a kind of guild, in the regulations, laws, and customs in which the "Spirit of War" finds its expression. It would be very wrong to look down upon this corporate spirit, or esprit de corps, which may and should exist more or less in every Army.”

Ifs Should Looks Kind May War Done Would Be Pain Law Spirit Individual Taken Expression Citizens Army Soldier Corporate Look Up Customs Regulation Professionalism Guilds Esprit De Corps

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“Clearly, if Confederation is to survive another 100 years, Canada must find a national esprit de corps. Cohesion cannot depend indefinitely on hating Toronto.”

Ifs Years Hate Depends Canada Toronto Cohesion Confederation Esprit De Corps

Author:Eric Nicol

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”

Liberty Eternal Stealing Vigilance Eternal Vigilance Esprit De Corps

Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

“Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.”

Mind States Attitude Courage State Of Mind Morale Steadfastness Esprit De Corps

Author:George C. Marshall

“Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.”

Mind States Careers Determination Loyalty Persistence State Of Mind Zeal Morale Steadfastness Esprit De Corps

Author:George C. Marshall

“The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men.”

Men World Should Certain Fighting Military Responsible Reputation Marine Being Responsible Marine Corps United States Marine United States Marine Corps My Marine Esprit De Corps

Book:Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles

Source: Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles

“Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.”

Men Spirit Individual Strong Class Students Ambition Motive Fellowship Good Will Esprit De Corps

Book:The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities

Source: The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.”

“Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.”

People Doe Government Law Humanity Principles Hatred Raised Privilege Connected Honour Emanate Above The Law Esprit De Corps

Author:William Hazlitt

“I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."”

Men Should Long War Body Military Army Officers Navy Marine Incomplete Marine Corps Inspirational Military Us Army Esprit De Corps

Author:Joshua R. Sands

“You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.”

Years Feelings Left Twenties Warm Nostalgic Esprit De Corps

Author:Alex Haley

“My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.”

Kind Has Beens Feelings Past Sound Focus Fields Balls Get Back Brotherhood Corny Esprit De Corps

Author:David Duchovny

“A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.”

People Ifs Feelings Together Motivation Stars Sports Worry Ego Creating Coaches Destroying Fragile Selection Competitors Togetherness Mold Morale Fragile Things Esprit De Corps

Author:Dick Motta