George S. Patton Quotes

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.

Always do more than is required of you.

Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

There are apparently two types of successful soldiers. Those who get on by being unobtrusive and those who get on by being obtrusive. I am of the latter type and seem to be rare and unpopular: but it is my method. One has to choose a system and stick to it; people who are not themselves are nobody.

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.

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

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.

We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans…. My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years.

Death can be more exciting than life.

From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder we push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

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

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.