Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
GEORGE S. PATTONSuccess is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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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.
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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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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.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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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.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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