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If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton
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George S. Patton
Age: 60 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 11
Died: 1945
Died: December 21
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When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
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Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
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When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.
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The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
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Always do everything you ask of those you command.
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I read the Bible - every goddamn day.
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War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
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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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If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.
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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?
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We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
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In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.
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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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Take calculated risks.
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The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
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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.
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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
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Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example
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