George S. Patton Jr.

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”

“I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o'er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a... fighter, But to die again, once more.”

“There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness.George S. Patton Jr.”

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”

“I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”

“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.”

“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men”

“A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.”

“Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet”

“To be a successful soldier, you must know history.”

“I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death...”

“Death can be more exciting than life.”

“Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.”

“...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.”

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”

“Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.”

“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.”

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

“Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.”

“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”

“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”

“continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.”

“Battle is an orgy of disorder.”

“A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.”

“I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?”

“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more”

“Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book! ”

“Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.”

“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he s not he s a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some it takes an hour. For some it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor his sense of duty to his country and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.”

“Take not counsel of your fears”

“A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. ”

“Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.”

“Pressure makes diamonds”

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”

“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?”

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”

“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.”

“A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.”

“Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.”

“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”

“May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.”

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”

“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”