Top 100 George Patton Quotes
#1. George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.
Bill O'Reilly
#2. God doesn't punish people who take their lives. They need him more than anyone else. - General George Patton
Scott Middlemist
#3. Live for something rather than die for nothing.
- George Patton
Cindy Gerard
#4. If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George Patton Jr. (1885-1945)
Thad Forester
#5. 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
#6. The best way to defend is to attack and the best way to attack is to attack. At Chancellorsville, Lee was asked why he attacked when he was outnumbered three to one. He said he was too weak to defend. - GEORGE PATTON
Jeff Shaara
#7. Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.
George S. Patton
#8. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton
#9. A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
George S. Patton Jr.
#10. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.
George S. Patton
#11. War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
George S. Patton
#12. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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#13. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
George S. Patton
#14. At one dinner he [George Smith Patton] toasted his officers' wives with the words: 'My, what pretty widows you're going to make.
Andrew Roberts
#15. I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.
George S. Patton
#16. All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
George S. Patton
#17. There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again ... You can look him straight in the eye and say, Son your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son of a Goddamned Bitch named Georgie Patton.
George S. Patton Jr.
#19. Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
George S. Patton Jr.
#24. If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do ... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.
George S. Patton Jr.
#25. I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.
George S. Patton
#26. 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
#28. Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles
George S. Patton
#29. 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.
George S. Patton
#30. We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
George S. Patton
#31. Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.
George S. Patton
#32. 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 one's country
George S. Patton Jr.
#33. Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton
#35. A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.
George S. Patton Jr.
#36. Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?
George S. Patton
#37. I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o'er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a ... fighter, But to die again, once more.
George S. Patton Jr.
#39. Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
George S. Patton
#40. The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.
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#43. The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.
George S. Patton
#44. Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton
#45. Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
George S. Patton
#46. Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.
George S. Patton Jr.
#47. 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.
George S. Patton Jr.
#49. I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.
George S. Patton
#50. I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no greater burden than to be the owner of this nasty country where it rains every day.
George S. Patton Jr.
#51. If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.
George S. Patton
#52. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.
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#53. There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
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#54. 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.
George S. Patton Jr.
#57. You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
George S. Patton
#58. By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
George S. Patton
#59. Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
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#61. Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.
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#62. All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
George S. Patton
#63. The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.
George S. Patton
#64. When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
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#66. All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.
George S. Patton Jr.
#67. George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.
Patton Oswalt
#68. A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
George S. Patton
#73. It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.
George S. Patton
#74. 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
#76. Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.
George S. Patton
#77. Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.
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#80. It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
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#81. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
#82. In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.
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#84. There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.
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#85. Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
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#86. Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
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#87. My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.
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#88. An imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
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#89. In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised
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#90. To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.
George S. Patton
#92. I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, 'Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
George S. Patton Jr.
#94. To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.
George S. Patton
#95. A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
George S. Patton
#96. I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
George S. Patton Jr.
#97. There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.
Joel Siegel
#99. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.
George S. Patton
#100. Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
George S. Patton Jr.
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