50+ George S. Patton Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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Activity Approach Height Man Rise Supreme Test War
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Chair Decision
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy War
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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Command Success Treat
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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Business Discipline Perfection Sort War
War is the only place where a man lives.
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Live Man Place War
Pressure makes diamonds.
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Diamond Gemstone Jewelry Motivational One Liner Pressure
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Execution Perfection Planning Violent
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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Brave Frightened Intelligence Man
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
When in doubt, ATTACK!
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Army Attack Doubt War
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Coward Fatigue One Liner
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
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Army Fight Soldier Win
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
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Absence Characteristic Courage Moral Valuable
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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Battle Competition Human Being Remove
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
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Deep Thinking
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Bastard Country Die War
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Courage Fear Motivational
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
Do everything you ask of those you command.
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Command Leadership War
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Character Inspirational One Liner
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Acceptance Challenge Exhilaration Victory
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Bullet Courage Education Face Useless

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