George Patton Quotes

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

Pressure makes diamonds

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

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.

Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!

A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.

Always do more than is required of you.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

Take not counsel of your fears

Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he s not he s a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some it takes an hour. For some it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor his sense of duty to his country and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

He who sweats more in training bleeds less in battle.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Death can be more exciting than life.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. —George S. Patton

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!

There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. ... You can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son of a Goddamned Bitch named Georgie Patton.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

War isn’t about dying for your country. It’s about making the enemy die for his.” Gen. George S. Patton

Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.

All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

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...

Just drive down that road until you get blown up.

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning or thinking. Then you must have well trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory; success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part or margin in everything. That's where prayer comes in.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.” —General George S. Patton As

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” —General George S. Patton, Jr. General

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.

If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do… the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his

To Hell With Compromises

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied 10 minutes later" Gen. George Patton,

Fear kills more people than death.

You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.” —General George S. Patton

I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o'er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a... fighter, But to die again, once more.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

God doesn't punish people who take their lives. They need him more than anyone else. - General George Patton

I was fascinated by all the great generals, from Alexander the Great to George Patton. I hated war, but I loved the warrior spirit.

If you win, give the credit. If you lose, take the blame.

General George Patton and others lamented that the Second World War had broken out in 1939 over saving the free peoples of Eastern Europe from totalitarianism—only to end, through the broken 1945 Yalta accords, ensuring their enslavement by an erstwhile Soviet ally whose military we had supplied lavishly.

I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no greater burden than to be the owner of this nasty country where it rains every day.

The object of war is not to die for your country, but make the other bastard die for his. -George S. Patton

The truth has no agenda.

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking. —George S. Patton Jr.

Si todo el mundo piensa igual es que alguien no está pensando.

The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton

It is not the American soldiers duty do die for his country. It is the American soldiers duty to make the enemy die for his country.

Изпитанието за успеха е не какво правиш, когато си на върха. Успехът е колко високо отскачаш, когато удариш дъното. The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not just going to shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.