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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.

George S. Patton

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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Army Fight Soldier Win
Pressure makes diamonds.
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Diamond Gemstone Jewelry Motivational One Liner Pressure
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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Follow 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
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Character Inspirational One Liner
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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Fight Life Live
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
War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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Direct Ruthless Wages War
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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Bastard Country Die Poor War Win
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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Bounce Failure High Success
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Fault Ideas Little Soldier War
Do more than is required of you.
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Motivational One Liner Requirement
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Execution Perfection Planning Violent
War is the only place where a man lives.
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Live Man Place War
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Acceptance Challenge Exhilaration Victory
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Bullet Courage Education Face Useless
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
Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Example Leadership Officer Voice
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
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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Die Foolish God Live Men Wrong
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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Business Discipline Perfection Sort War
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
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Afraid Battle Coward Duty Manhood Men Overcome Sense War
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Absence Characteristic Courage Moral Valuable
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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People Surprise
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Blood Sweat War
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Chair Decision

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