George S. Patton Quotes

When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

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

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

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

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

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

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Always do more than is required of you.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

You're never beaten until you admit it

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

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

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

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

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

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

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

Fear kills more people than death.

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

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

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

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

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

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.