Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
GEORGE S. PATTONHuman beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
GEORGE S. PATTONAnyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
GEORGE S. PATTONThe 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.
GEORGE S. PATTONAn active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
GEORGE S. PATTONAccept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
GEORGE S. PATTONFatigue makes cowards of us all.
GEORGE S. PATTONMay God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
GEORGE S. PATTONUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
GEORGE S. PATTONNo poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
GEORGE S. PATTONThroughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
GEORGE S. PATTONWar is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
GEORGE S. PATTONI have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
GEORGE S. PATTONThere is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
GEORGE S. PATTONI don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
GEORGE S. PATTONSay what you mean and mean what you say.
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.
GEORGE S. PATTON