General George S Patton Quotes

#1. 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

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

Gary Keller

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.

Mark Twain

#6. You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

William J. Clinton

#7. When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound
this is what I had to go through.

Jack LaLanne

#8. You know, even Darth Vader had the good grace to ask Luke to join him on the dark side.

Kristen Ashley

#9. President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

Eric Alterman

#10. At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

Martin Luther

#11. 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

#12. But it is an orchestra," I say. "It's an imitation orchestra - an orchestrion, an orchestrina - whatever you call it, it does a terrible job! All you've done is turn a sublime group achievement, a human act, into an inferior egotistical solo -

Kim Stanley Robinson

#13. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach

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

Thad Forester

#15. I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.

Coretta Scott King

#16. The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

Henry Flynt

#17. I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice.

Kurt Rambis

#18. Where there is conflict, there is no God.

Dada Bhagwan

#19. Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.

Seraphim Rose

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

Scott Middlemist

#21. A goal without a date is just a dream.

Milton H. Erickson