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Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
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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George Smith Patton
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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.
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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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Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.
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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.
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My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.
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Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
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Make your plans to fit the circumstances.
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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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All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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