Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
GEORGE S. PATTONThe 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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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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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 afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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