There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
GEORGE S. PATTONWar is the only place where a man lives.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit 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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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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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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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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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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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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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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