An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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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War is the only place where a man lives.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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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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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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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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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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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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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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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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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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