George S. Patton Quotes

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

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.

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

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

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

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

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

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

Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.

Fear kills more people than death.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.