Top 15 George S. Patton Quotes

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

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

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

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.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

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.

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

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.