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. PATTONThroughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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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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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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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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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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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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Do more than is required of you.
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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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