In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.

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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton

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Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

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

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

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

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To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.

George S. Patton

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Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

George S. Patton

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

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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.

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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

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When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

George S. Patton

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Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

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

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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

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Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

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

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The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

George S. Patton

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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

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The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.

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Always do more than is required of you.

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