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George S Patton Inspirational Quotes (137)

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I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.
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There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
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Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
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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.
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Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.
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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.
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In case of doubt, attack.
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You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
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Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.
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Pressure makes diamonds
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You fight like you train.
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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 bottom.
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My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.
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Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
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The god of war hates those who hesitate.
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In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.
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America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
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An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.
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A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.
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I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.
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Wars are not won by fighting battles wars are won by choosing battles
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To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.
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There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.
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I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.
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