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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

George S. Patton

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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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Bastard Country Die Poor War Win
War is the only place where a man lives.
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Live Man Place War
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Courage Fear Motivational
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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Active Body Exist Inactive Mind
Pressure makes diamonds.
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Diamond Gemstone Jewelry Motivational One Liner Pressure
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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Battle Competition Human Being Remove
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Bullet Courage Education Face Useless
When in doubt, ATTACK!
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Army Attack Doubt War
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Absence Characteristic Courage Moral Valuable
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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Fight Life Live
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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Die Foolish God Live Men Wrong
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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Bounce Success Test
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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Afraid Battle Coward Duty Manhood Men Overcome Sense War
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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Content Country Himself Life Mediocrity Tradition True Walk
Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Consequences Duty See
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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Bounce Failure High Success
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Chair Decision
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Deep Thinking
Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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History River War
There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
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Defeat Live Pathethic
War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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Direct Ruthless Wages War
Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Example Leadership Officer Voice
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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Brave Frightened Intelligence Man
The 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.
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Army Citizen Country Soldier
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Execution Perfection Planning Violent
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Bastard Country Die War

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