Quotes from George S. Patton Jr.

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

Pressure makes diamonds

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

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.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

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.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.

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

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.

Pressure makes diamonds

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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.

It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.