George S. Patton famous quotes

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
-- George S. Patton

#Motivational #Military #Fighting

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Business #Military

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-- George S. Patton

#Life #Motivational #Success

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other ***** die for his.
-- George S. Patton

#Country #War

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.
-- George S. Patton

#Military #Men #Leader

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
-- George S. Patton

#Leadership #Way #Follow Me

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
-- George S. Patton

#Country #Military #Army

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.
-- George S. Patton

#Country #Self Confidence #Pride

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positivity

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
-- George S. Patton

#Death #Wisdom #Memorial Day

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton

#Motivational #Business #Learning

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
-- George S. Patton

#Life #Strength #Courage

If a man does his best, what else is there?
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Witty #Humorous

A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.
-- George S. Patton

#Mean #Fate #Destiny

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
-- George S. Patton

#Military #Fighting #Men

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
-- George S. Patton

#Courage #Veterans Day #Fear

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
-- George S. Patton

#Fitness #Inspiration #Mind

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
-- George S. Patton

#Mediocrity #Tradition #Walks

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Positive #Leadership

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
-- George S. Patton

#Country #Real #Men

Take not counsel of your fears
-- George S. Patton

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. 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.
-- George S. Patton

#Fear #Men #Essence

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
-- George S. Patton

#Courage #Army #Useless

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
-- George S. Patton

#Real #Hero #Fighting

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
-- George S. Patton

#Struggle #Fighting

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
-- George S. Patton

#Military #Ostentatious

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
-- George S. Patton

#Courage #Time #Fear

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Motivational #Encouraging

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
-- George S. Patton

#Successful #Treated

Fear kills more people than death.
-- George S. Patton

#Motivational #People

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!
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Courage #Fear

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
-- George S. Patton

#Change #Business #Past

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
-- George S. Patton

#Love #Real #Fighting

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
-- George S. Patton

#Motivational #Leadership #Army

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!
-- George S. Patton

#Military #Feet #Lasts

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
-- George S. Patton

#Running #Courage #Blood

In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.
-- George S. Patton

#Perseverance #Doubt #Pushing

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
-- George S. Patton

#War #Simple #Direct

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
-- George S. Patton

#Successful #Soldier

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
-- George S. Patton

#Duty #Consequence

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
-- George S. Patton

#War #Soldier #Dying

Always do more than is required of you.
-- George S. Patton

#Motivational #Inspiring #Graduation

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
-- George S. Patton

#Tactics #Strategy #Worst

You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.
-- George S. Patton

#Decision

Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example
-- George S. Patton

#Suicide #Military #Moving

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
-- George S. Patton

#Army #Men #Stupidity

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Motivational #Running

Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.
-- George S. Patton

#Country #War #Men

Always do everything you ask of those you command.
-- George S. Patton

#Army #Command

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
-- George S. Patton

#Inspirational #Veterans Day #Military

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
-- George S. Patton

A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.
-- George S. Patton

#Destiny #Men #Doe

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
-- George S. Patton

#Perseverance #Men #Desire

Battle is an orgy of disorder.
-- George S. Patton

#Battle #Disorder

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
-- George S. Patton

#Motivation #Doubt #Length

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.
-- George S. Patton

#Care #Take Care #Duty

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.
-- George S. Patton

#Enemy #Battle #Site

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
-- George S. Patton

#War #Soul #Defense

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
-- George S. Patton

#Motivational #Fear #Military

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
-- George S. Patton

#Self Confidence #Self #Soldier

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
-- George S. Patton

#War #4th Of July #Men

In case of doubt, attack.
-- George S. Patton

#Attitude #Doubt #Cases

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
-- George S. Patton

#Positive Thinking #Perfect #Vigor

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
-- George S. Patton

#Army #Perfect #Battle

America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
-- George S. Patton

#War #Army #America

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.
-- George S. Patton

#Military

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
-- George S. Patton

#Attitude #Military #Inspiration

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula
-- George S. Patton

#Art #Military #War

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
-- George S. Patton

#Witty #Peace #Powerful

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
-- George S. Patton

#War #Winning #Men

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.
-- George S. Patton

#War #Army #Winning

There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.
-- George S. Patton

#Loyalty #Army #Men

All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.
-- George S. Patton

#Jobs #Real #Hero

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.
-- George S. Patton

#Men #Three #Want

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.
-- George S. Patton

#Fear #War #Men

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.
-- George S. Patton

#Decision #Leader #Important

Live for something rather than die for nothing.
-- George S. Patton

#Birthday

...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
-- George S. Patton

#Military #Perfect #Succeed

It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.
-- George S. Patton

#Military #Moving #Believe

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.
-- George S. Patton

#Decision #Made #Right Time

You're never beaten until you admit it
-- George S. Patton

#Strength

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
-- George S. Patton

#Men #Discipline #Battle

Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.
-- George S. Patton

#Patriotic #Earth #Politician

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.
-- George S. Patton

#Believe #White #Ties

There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
-- George S. Patton

#Mean #Army #Hands

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.
-- George S. Patton

#Leadership #War #Men

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
-- George S. Patton

#Motivational #People #Results

No ***** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb ***** die for his country.
-- George S. Patton

#Country #War #Dumb

Death can be more exciting than life.
-- George S. Patton

#Death #Exciting

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
-- George S. Patton

#Determination #Warrior #Soul

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.
-- George S. Patton

#Trying #Urban #Planning

I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn't the slightest idea of what I'm going to do. So when the time comes, I'm going to whip the hell out of him.
-- George S. Patton

#Life #Ideas #Leader

There is no such thing as a successful defense.
-- George S. Patton

#Sports #Successful #Psychology

Most battles are won before they are ever fought.
-- George S. Patton

#Wisdom #Battle

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.
-- George S. Patton

#War #Home #World

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.
-- George S. Patton

#War #Army #Winning

In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
-- George S. Patton

#Encouraging #Believe #Responsibility