Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Death can be more exciting than life.
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
Death
Life
Exciting
More quotes by George S. Patton
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
George S. Patton
Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.
George S. Patton
In case of doubt, attack.
George S. Patton
But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.
George S. Patton
When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.
George S. Patton
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
George S. Patton
Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts
George S. Patton
My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.
George S. Patton
When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.
George S. Patton
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.
George S. Patton
...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
George S. Patton
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
George S. Patton
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.
George S. Patton
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
George S. Patton
Battle is an orgy of disorder.
George S. Patton
Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
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
If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.
George S. Patton
Always do everything you ask of those you command.
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
