George S. Patton Quotes

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

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

“If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.”

“Always do everything you ask of those you command.”

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

“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.”

“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

“All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty.”

“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important decision. When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”

“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”

“I find that moral courage is the most valuable and most usually absent characteristic.”

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

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.”

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”

“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”

“One does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.”

“A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.”

“There is only one sort of discipline: perfect discipline.”

“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.”

“A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.”

“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.”

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers.”