Top 10 Most Famous George Patton Quotes (BEST)
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
— George S. Patton
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
— George S. Patton
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
— George S. Patton
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
— George S. Patton
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
— George S. Patton
Do everything you ask of those you command.
— George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
— George S. Patton
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
— George S. Patton
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
— George S. Patton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
— George S. Patton
11 Best General Patton Quotes on Leadership
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
— George S. Patton
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
— George S. Patton
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
— George S. Patton
Do everything you ask of those you command.
— George S. Patton
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
— George S. Patton
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
— George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
— George S. Patton
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
— George S. Patton
Do more than is required of you.
— George S. Patton
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
— George S. Patton
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
— George S. Patton
35 Best Inspirational George Patton Quotes
Never stop being ambitious. You have but one life, live it to the fullest of glory and be willing to pay any price.
— George S. Patton
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
— George S. Patton
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
— George S. Patton
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
— George S. Patton
Cowardice is a disease and it must be checked before it becomes epidemic.
— George S. Patton
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.
— George S. Patton
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
— George S. Patton
By perseverance, and study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
— George S. Patton
The unleavened bread of knowledge will sustain life, but it is dull fare unless it is leavened with the yeast of personality.
— George S. Patton
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
— George S. Patton
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
— George S. Patton
If a man does his best, what else is there?
— George S. Patton
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
— George S. Patton
I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
— George S. Patton
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
— George S. Patton
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
— George S. Patton
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!
— George S. Patton
When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
— George S. Patton
A man must know his destiny. If he does not recognize it, then he is lost.
— George S. Patton
It is easy to die for nothing; one should die for something.
— George S. Patton
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
— George S. Patton
It is better to live in the limelight for a year than in the wings forever.
— George S. Patton
Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
— George S. Patton
Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.
— George S. Patton
Always do everything you ask of those you command.
— George S. Patton
Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.
— George S. Patton
Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended, then go forward on foot!
— George S. Patton
The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
— George S. Patton
There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness.
— George S. Patton
A war may be fought with weapons, but won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
— George S. Patton
In case of doubt, attack.
— George S. Patton
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
The bare minimum amount of work doesn’t cut it. Do more than is required of you.
— George S. Patton
By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
— George S. Patton
You shouldn’t underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
— George S. Patton
29 General George Patton Quotes on War
Success in war depends on the golden rules of war speed, simplicity, and boldness.
— George S. Patton
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
— George S. Patton
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
— George S. Patton
I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
— George S. Patton
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
— George S. Patton
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.
— George S. Patton
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
— George S. Patton
Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
— George S. Patton
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base.
— George S. Patton
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
— George S. Patton
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
— George S. Patton
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
— George S. Patton
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
— George S. Patton
Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
— George S. Patton
Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I’ll win a battle… Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war.
— George S. Patton
It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
— George S. Patton
War is the only place where a man lives.
— George S. Patton
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
— George S. Patton
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
— George S. Patton
There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
— George S. Patton
The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.
— George S. Patton
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
— George S. Patton
War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
— George S. Patton
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
— George S. Patton
If a man thinks war long enough, it is bound to have a good effect on him.
— George S. Patton
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
— George S. Patton
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
— George S. Patton
Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
— George S. Patton
You’re never beaten until you admit it.
— George S. Patton
More Famous George Patton Quotes
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
— George S. Patton
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
— George S. Patton
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
— George S. Patton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
— George S. Patton
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
— George S. Patton
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
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
— George S. Patton
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
— George S. Patton
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
— George S. Patton
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!
— George S. Patton
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
— George S. Patton
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
Battle is an orgy of disorder.
— George S. Patton
