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. PATTONWars 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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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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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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There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Do more than is required of you.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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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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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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War is the only place where a man lives.
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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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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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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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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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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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