I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
GEORGE S. PATTONMoral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Do more than is required of you.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Battle 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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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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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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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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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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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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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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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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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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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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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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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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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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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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