Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
GEORGE S. PATTONSuccess in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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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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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.
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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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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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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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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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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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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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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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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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