A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
GEORGE S. PATTONPressure makes diamonds.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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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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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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When in doubt, ATTACK!
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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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There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Do more than is required of you.
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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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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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