Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
GEORGE S. PATTONAnyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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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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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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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.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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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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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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