Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
GEORGE S. PATTONFatigue makes cowards of us all.
GEORGE S. PATTONAll very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
GEORGE S. PATTONPressure makes diamonds.
GEORGE S. PATTONWar is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
GEORGE S. PATTONAn active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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.
GEORGE S. PATTONHuman beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
GEORGE S. PATTONDo everything you ask of those you command.
GEORGE S. PATTONNo poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
GEORGE S. PATTONIf everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
GEORGE S. PATTONMany soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
GEORGE S. PATTONI don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
GEORGE S. PATTONOfficers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
GEORGE S. PATTONIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE S. PATTONA good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
GEORGE S. PATTONSay what you mean and mean what you say.
GEORGE S. PATTON