Quotes from George S. Patton

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

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.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

If a man does his best, what else is there?

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

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.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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.

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.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Si todo el mundo piensa igual es que alguien no está pensando.

The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton

No b****** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b****** die for his country.