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“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.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”
― George S. Patton

“May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― George S. Patton

“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.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

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

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

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

“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”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
― George S. Patton

“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.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“When in doubt, ATTACK!”
― George S. Patton

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

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Pressure makes diamonds”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
― George S. Patton Jr., The Patton principles

“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.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
― George S. Patton

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom”
― General George S. Patton

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood”
― George S. Patton

“There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning or thinking. Then you must have well trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory; success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part or margin in everything. That's where prayer comes in.”
― George S. Patton

“...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.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“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.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book! ”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“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?”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night