General George Patton Quotes

#1. If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George Patton Jr. (1885-1945)

Thad Forester

#2. When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?

Andrei Cherny

#3. God doesn't punish people who take their lives. They need him more than anyone else. - General George Patton

Scott Middlemist

#4. General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn't wrong when he bellowed, Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

Victor Davis Hanson

#5. William Perkins said, The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself ... but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

Leland Ryken

#6. Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind

Mark Allen

#7. In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

Robert Breault

#8. Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.

Irma S. Rombauer

#9. You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. - General George S. Patton

Gary Keller

#10. That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

Gordon Gould

#11. Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe.

Bob Buckhorn

#12. Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

Chuck Noll

#13. A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

Hector Hugh Munro

#14. Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

Bobby Jindal

#15. Discernment is first of all a habit, a way of seeing that eventually permeates our whole life. It is the journey from spiritual blindness (not seeing God anywhere or seeing him only where we expect to see him) to spiritual sight (finding God everywhere, especially where we least expect it).

Ruth Haley Barton

#16. I think it's fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we're unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we're witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

Scott Lynch

#17. Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Roddy Doyle

#18. Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Mark Twain

#19. Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

Simon Sinek