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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

George S. Patton

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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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Bounce Success Test
Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Example Leadership Officer Voice
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Fault Ideas Little Soldier 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.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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Active Body Exist Inactive Mind
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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Follow Leadership War
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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Bastard Country Die Poor War Win
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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Afraid Battle Coward Duty Manhood Men Overcome Sense War
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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Bottom Bounce Climb Measure Success
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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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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Die Foolish God Live Men Wrong
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Courage Fear Motivational
When in doubt, ATTACK!
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Army Attack Doubt War
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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Army History Military Soldier War
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Chair Decision
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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Command Success Treat
Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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Bold Depend Gold Rule Simplicity Speed Success War
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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Army Citizen Country Soldier
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Bullet Courage Education Face Useless
War is the only place where a man lives.
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Live Man Place War
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Army Fight Soldier Win
Pressure makes diamonds.
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Diamond Gemstone Jewelry Motivational One Liner Pressure
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Character Inspirational One Liner
Do more than is required of you.
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Motivational One Liner Requirement
Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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History River War
Do everything you ask of those you command.
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Command Leadership War
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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People Surprise

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