George S. Patton

"With the generous command of the media for the past forty-eight hours, I am sure that you have all heard over and over again of the origins of the Three-Army Group."

"You are not beaten until you admit it."

"You don't have to be Irish to be crazy, but it helps."

"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too."

"Your time is limited. Don't waste it."

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

"A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied too late."

"Discipline is the most important part of leadership."

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

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

"You measure the value of a soldier not by his weapons or rank, but by his heart."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"Do not take counsel of your fears."

"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen; that's the time to be kind to your fears and consider them. But once the battle is joined, you dispel fear and go forward."

"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

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

"The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence."

"War is the only place where a man has to pay the penalty twice for the same crime."

"Always do everything you ask of those you command."

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

"Courage is a hard thing to judge. You can't always go by combat. Courage is when you have been told you are not going to get out alive and the only thing you can do is sign your name."

"A man must know his destiny but to reach it he must take roads which others will never have the courage to attempt."

"No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"The way to prevent a war is to wage one."

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

"There is a time to come in with a club and hit somebody over the head with it, and there is a time to come up to somebody on the basis of logic and trail of reason."

"All human errors are impatience, the want of due consideration."

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

"I believe that I am a soldier. I believe that discipline is the most essential thing in a soldier's life."