All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
GEORGE S. PATTONThroughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
More George S. Patton Quotes
-
-
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
War is the only place where a man lives.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
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.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
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.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE S. PATTON






