Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
George S. Patton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George S. Patton
Age: 60 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 11
Died: 1945
Died: December 21
Autobiographer
Military Commander
Military Officer
Swimmer
San Gabriel
California
The Old Man
Old Blood and Guts
Bandito
General Patton
George Smith Patton
Jr.
G.S. Patton
Goal
Inspirational
Positivity
Need
Overcome
Needs
Goals
People
Overcoming
Reach
Motivational
High
More quotes by George S. Patton
Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.
George S. Patton
My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.
George S. Patton
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
George S. Patton
The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.
George S. Patton
Never let the enemy pick the battle site.
George S. Patton
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.
George S. Patton
I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton
The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.
George S. Patton
When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.
George S. Patton
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
George S. Patton
Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
George S. Patton
War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
George S. Patton
Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.
George S. Patton
When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.
George S. Patton
I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.
George S. Patton
Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?
George S. Patton
You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
George S. Patton
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.
George S. Patton
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
George S. Patton
