Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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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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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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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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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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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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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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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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