Quotes by George S. Patton Jr.

“Pressure makes diamonds”

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”

“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”

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

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

“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.”

“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.”

“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”

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

“The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton”

“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”

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

“I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?”

“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 ones country”

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

“...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,...”

“Live for something rather than die for nothing.”

“...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 superior...”