Top 100 Patton's Quotes
#1. I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#2. A handful of the senior officers listening to the speech disapproved of Patton's coarse language. Patton could not care less. He believes that profanity is the language of the soldier, and that to speak to soldiers one must use words that will have the most impact.
Bill O'Reilly
#3. In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.
Edward Albert
#4. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.
Meghan Markle
#5. I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.
Ed Royce
#6. Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.
George S. Patton
#7. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton
#8. 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.
#9. 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
#10. War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
George S. Patton
#11. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
#12. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
George S. Patton
#13. I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.
Patton Oswalt
#14. I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.
Paula Patton
#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.
#20. If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.
Mike Patton
#22. Pace yourself in your work and commitments. Nobody is indispensable. And when you get sick, honor your body by giving it the rest and medical attention that it's asking for.
Sue Patton Thoele
#26. 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.
#27. I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.
George S. Patton
#28. 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
#30. Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles
George S. Patton
#31. She wants me to take out Patton."
Barron's brows draw together. "Take out? As in transform him?"
"No," I say. "As in take out to dinner. She thinks we'd make a good couple.
Holly Black
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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.
#36. Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton
#38. 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.
#39. Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?
George S. Patton
#40. 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.
#42. It's the method of consumption, not what's on the plate.
Patton Oswalt
#43. 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
#44. Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.
Paula Patton
#45. Being aware of our feelings sounds easy, but it's not because many of us spend our entire lives pushing feelings aside as we try to please others.
Sue Patton Thoele
#46. The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.
George S. Patton
#47. There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.
Patton Oswalt
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
George S. Patton
#53. Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.
Paula Patton
#54. Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.
George S. Patton Jr.
#55. 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.
#57. 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
#58. 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.
#59. It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.
Candice Patton
#60. If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.
George S. Patton
#61. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.
George S. Patton
#62. 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.
George S. Patton
#63. 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.
#66. I can't change how I die, but I can decide how I live. And I want to live that life with you." - Oona's Fortune.
Lucy Patton
#67. People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.
Patton Oswalt
#68. You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
George S. Patton
#69. I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all, and get real down and dirty.
Paula Patton
#70. By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
George S. Patton
#71. Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
George S. Patton
#73. I really appreciate and respect the audience. People pay their hard-earned money to go watch you, so I feel like it's my job to give 100,000% of myself to what I'm doing.
Paula Patton
#74. Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.
George S. Patton
#75. All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
George S. Patton
#76. But can't we do that with our clothes on?"
"We could," he said, giving me that cocky grin of his. "But where's the fun in that?
Ripley Patton
#77. 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
#78. When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
George S. Patton
#79. We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
Mike Patton
#81. 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.
#82. George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.
Patton Oswalt
#83. A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
George S. Patton
#84. If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.
Patton Oswalt
#89. 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
#90. 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
#92. Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.
George S. Patton
#93. Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.
George S. Patton
#96. If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.
Mike Patton
#97. It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
George S. Patton
#98. Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates.
Paula Patton
#99. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
#100. In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.
George S. Patton
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