I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
GEORGE S. PATTONThere is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I’ll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war.
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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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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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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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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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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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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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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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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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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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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War is the only place where a man lives.
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