black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

George S. Patton

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Chair Decision
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Leadership Military Spagehetti
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Deep Thinking
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.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Army Citizen Country Soldier
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Bastard Country Die War
There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Defeat Live Pathethic
War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Direct Ruthless Wages War
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Enemy God Mercy
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Courage Fear Motivational
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Execution Perfection Planning Violent
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Acceptance Challenge Exhilaration Victory
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Follow Leadership War
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.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Battle Competition Human Being Remove
Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Consequences Duty See
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
GEORGE S. PATTON

People Surprise
I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Bottom Bounce Climb Measure Success

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More George S. Patton Quotes