Quote

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

George S. Patton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Meticulous
Ingrained
Excitement
Stronger
Discipline
Battle
Habit
Must

More quotes by George S. Patton

Image
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
Image
Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.
George S. Patton
Image
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
Image
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
George S. Patton
Image
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
George S. Patton
Image
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton
Image
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.
George S. Patton
Image
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. Patton
Image
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton
Image
The soldier is the army.
George S. Patton
Image
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton
Image
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
Image
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!
George S. Patton
Image
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
George S. Patton
Image
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
Image
You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.
George S. Patton
Image
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
Image
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
George S. Patton
Image
Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.
George S. Patton
Image
Battle is an orgy of disorder.
George S. Patton