Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

George S. Patton

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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Consequences Duty See
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Chair Decision
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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Afraid Battle Courage Discipline Man Produce Sane
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy War
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
Pressure makes diamonds.
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Diamond Gemstone Jewelry Motivational One Liner Pressure
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
Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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Blood Courage Flesh Human Being Miracle
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Character Inspirational One Liner
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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Army History Military Soldier War
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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Army Battle War Win
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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Active Body Exist Inactive Mind
Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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History River War
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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Leadership Military Spagehetti
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
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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Fight Men Spirit Victory War Weapon Win
Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Example Leadership Officer Voice
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
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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Fight Life Live
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Coward Fatigue One Liner
Do everything you ask of those you command.
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Command Leadership War
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
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
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy
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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Bottom Bounce Climb Measure Success
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Courage Fear Motivational
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Acceptance Challenge Exhilaration Victory

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

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