George S. Patton Quotes - Page 7

So as through a glass and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names - but always me.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Make your plans to fit the circumstances.

To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.

In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

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.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.

Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

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

Just drive down that road, until you get blown up

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

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

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

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.

When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

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

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.