George S. Patton Quotes

United States Army general (1885–1945)

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General George Smith Patton, Jr. (11 November 1885 – 21 December 1945) was a senior officer of the United States Army, who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. He was known in his time as "America's Fightingest General".

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Native Name: George Smith Patton, Jr. • George Smith Patton Jr.

Also Known As: Old Blood and Guts

Alternative Names: The Old Man • Bandito • General Patton • G.S. Patton • George Patton • George Smith Patton • G.S. Patton, Jr.

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The unleavened bread of knowledge will sustain life, but it is dull fare unless it is leavened with the yeast of personality.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

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.

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.

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 morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger, the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was
never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

Do not fear failure. Do more than is required of you. Make your own plans fit the circumstances. There is only one type of discipline. — perfect discipline.

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.

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.

I have sinned and I have suffered, Played the hero and the knave; Fought for belly, shame, or country, And for each have found a grave. <p> I cannot name my battles For the visions are not clear, Yet, I see the twisted faces And I feel the rending spear.

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

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

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

To Hell With Compromises

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