Quotes from George S. Patton

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 in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.

Just finished reading the Koran—a good book and interesting.

We took over the so-called Royal Palace for a Headquarters and had it cleaned by prisoners for the first time since the Greek Occupation.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

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

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.

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

A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.

Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

A man must know his destiny.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

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.

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

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?

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.