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Battle... brings out all that is best.
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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More quotes by George S. Patton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton
When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.
George S. Patton
Always do more than is required of you.
George S. Patton
Battle is an orgy of disorder.
George S. Patton
If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton
Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.
George S. Patton
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton
A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
George S. Patton
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.
George S. Patton
Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.
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
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton
A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.
George S. Patton
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
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.
George S. Patton
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
George S. Patton
