“ 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? George S. Patton Jr.
“ A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future. George S. Patton Jr.
“ Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George S. Patton Jr.
“ 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 George S. Patton Jr.
“ Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. George S. Patton Jr.
“ 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. George S. Patton Jr.
“ 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 Jr.
“ ...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,… 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 George S. Patton Jr.
