George S. Patton Quotes - Page 2

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• When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

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  Running, Nice, Party

  "General Patton's Address to the Troops". "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

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  Motivation, Doubt, Length

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• The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

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  Men, Risk, Measure Of A Man

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• Now 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 will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn't the slightest idea of what I'm going to do. So when the time comes, I'm going to whip the hell out of him.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Ideas, Leader

  War As I Knew It (1947).

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• Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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  Leadership, Military, Bad Ass

  "Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes". Book edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157, 2005.

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  I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

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  Motivational, Military, War

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• Always do more than is required of you.

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

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  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Military

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• You just wait and see. The lily-livered b*stards in Washington will demobilize. They'll say they've made the world safe for democracy again. The Russians are not such d*mned fools. They'll rebuild; and with modern weapons.

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  Waiting, Democracy, World

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• No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

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  Inspirational, Business, Military

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• Fear kills more people than death.

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  Motivational, People

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• Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

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• You're never beaten until you admit it

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  Strength, Encouragement, Military

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• Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

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  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Leader

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• Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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  Veterans Day, Courage, Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

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  Military, Division, Politics

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• Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

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  Military, War, Investing

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• Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

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  Running, Giving Up, Mind

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• When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.

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  Inspiration, Thinking, Agree

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• Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

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  Army, Men, Stupidity

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• Pressure makes diamonds

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  Clever, Military, Pressure

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• There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

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  Men, Want, Way

  "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill. Review of the News, www.pattonhq.com. October 06, 1971.

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• There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.

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  Prayer, Military, Army

  "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill. Review of the News, www.pattonhq.com. October 06, 1971.

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• A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.

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  Military, War, Mean

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