George S. Patton
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.Collection: Patriotism
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.Collection: Veterans
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.Collection: Courage
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.Collection: Success
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.Collection: Motivational
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.Collection: Intelligence
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!Collection: Fear
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.Collection: Motivational
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.Collection: War
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.Collection: Men
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.Collection: Fear
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.Collection: Wisdom
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.Collection: Motivational
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.Collection: Chance
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.Collection: Fear
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.Collection: War
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.Collection: Men
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.Collection: War
If a man does his best, what else is there?Collection: Best
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.Collection: History
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.Collection: Amazing
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.Collection: Learning
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.Collection: Time
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Always do everything you ask of those you command.
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
Battle is an orgy of disorder.
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.Collection: War
Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.Collection: Military
Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.Collection: Trying
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.Collection: Strength
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.Collection: Inspirational
Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.Collection: Determination
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.Collection: Fire
When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.Collection: Fear Of Failure
The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.Collection: Military
The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.Collection: Humble
When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.Collection: Running
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.Collection: Inspirational
Fear kills more people than death.Collection: Motivational
You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.Collection: Discipline
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.Collection: Teaching
Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battlesCollection: War
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.Collection: Running