No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
GEORGE S. PATTONBattle 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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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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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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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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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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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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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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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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