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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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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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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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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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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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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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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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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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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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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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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