Изпитанието за успеха е не какво правиш, когато си на върха. Успехът е колко високо отскачаш, когато удариш дъното. The test of success is not what … - George S. Patton

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.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The noise against me is only the means by which the Jews and Communists are attempting and with good success to implement a further dismemberment of Germany.
I think that if I resigned as I threatened to do yesterday, it would simply discredit me to no purpose. . . This august lady [Fifteenth Army] . . . has the job of reviewing the strategy and tactics of the war to see how the former conformed to the unit plans and how the tactics changed. Were it not for the fact that it will be, so far as I am concerned, a kick up stairs, I would like it much better than being a sort of executioner to the best race in Europe. Later when people wake up to what is going on here, I can admit why I took the job. Am I weak and a coward? Am I putting my posthumous reputation above my present honor? God how I wish I knew... P.S. No one gives a damn how well Bavaria is run. All they are interested in now is how well it is ruined.

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

There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.