George S. Patton Quotes

• Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

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• The object of war is not to die for your country. The object of war is to make damn sure the other sonofabitch dies for his.

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• May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.

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• Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

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• “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer”.

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• We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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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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• Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

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• There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

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• There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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• The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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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 bottom.

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• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

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• Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

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• Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

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• No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

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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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• If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

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• If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, 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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• If a man does his best, what else is there?

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George S. Patton (41)

Birth:	11th November, 1885
Death:	21st December, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Army Officer

About

George Smith Patton, Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California, USA. He was an American senior army officer who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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