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. PATTONAccept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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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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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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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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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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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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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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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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