George S. Patton
- Country : United States
- Profession :General
- DOB: 2023-11-11
George S. Patton (Nov11, 1885 – Dec 21, 1945)
was a legendary and highly influential American military officer during World War II. Known for his charismatic leadership and aggressive tactics, he played a pivotal role in the Allied victory in Europe. Patton is best remembered for commanding the U.S. Seventh Army during the North African and Sicilian campaigns, as well as the Third Army during the Allied advance through France and Germany. His bold and relentless approach earned him the nickname “Old Blood and Guts.” Despite his controversial and often outspoken demeanor, Patton’s strategic brilliance made him a key figure in the defeat of Nazi Germany. Tragically, he died in a car accident shortly after the war.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Author: George S. PattonNo sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
Author: George S. PattonWar is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
Author: George S. PattonAll men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
Author: George S. PattonThere is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
Author: George S. PattonThe most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence, utter, complete and bumptious.
Author: George S. PattonIf you can’t get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?
Author: George S. PattonInfantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move…. To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example.
Author: George S. PattonWar is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula.
Author: George S. PattonYou cannot be disciplined in great things and indiscipline in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you ever seen a few policemen handle a crowd?
Author: George S. PattonAn army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit.
Author: George S. PattonMake the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
Author: George S. PattonAttack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
Author: George S. PattonA man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.
Author: George S. PattonOften I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.
Author: George S. PattonThat was the only mistake Robert E Lee ever made. He gave suggestions instead of orders and it cost him the war.
Author: George S. PattonAny man who could not make up his mind in less than forty-eight hours was not fit to command troops in battle.
Author: George S. PattonWhen a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.
Author: George S. PattonWhen in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
Author: George S. PattonYou must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.
Author: George S. PattonYou need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
Author: George S. PattonThe time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
Author: George S. PattonAnyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
Author: George S. PattonBattle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.
Author: George S. PattonFor over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.
Author: George S. PattonA civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon – it won’t work and you can’t fire it.
Author: George S. PattonUrge 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.
Author: George S. PattonThe Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. It’s a choice between them and the Russians, I prefer the Germans.
Author: George S. PattonI would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
Author: George S. PattonIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Author: George S. PattonLack of orders is no excuse for inaction. Anything done vigorously is better than nothing done tardily.
Author: George S. PattonIt is the unconquerable soul of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses which insures victory.
Author: George S. PattonPrepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
Author: George S. PattonBe willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.
Author: George S. PattonThe most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.
Author: George S. PattonSuccess in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
Author: George S. PattonThere is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
Author: George S. PattonMoral Courage Is the Most Valuable and Usually the Most Absent Characteristic in Men.
Author: George S. PattonTo 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.
Author: George S. PattonDo not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.
Author: George S. PattonThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Author: George S. PattonThe important thing in any organization is the creation of a soul which is based on pride.
Author: George S. PattonYou young lieutenants have to realize that your platoon is like a piece of spaghetti. You can’t push it. You’ve got to get out in front and pull it.
Author: George S. PattonI want you to know that I do not judge the efficiency of an officer by the calluses on his butt.
Author: George S. PattonI don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Author: George S. PattonEveryone had a story about a family member who’d had to go in to hiding, or a friend who’d been dragged off to a concentration camp, or a house that had been destroyed by a bomb. Then they moved on to rumours about the war- about Patton, the American general who was making such good progress on the Western Front.
Author: George S. PattonDon’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Author: George S. PattonWar is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
Author: George S. PattonThere is only one sort of discipline – PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.
Author: George S. PattonAll men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
Author: George S. PattonA good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
Author: George S. PattonThe test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
Author: George S. PattonWhat we are doing is to destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow the whole.
Author: George S. PattonI am frankly opposed to this war criminal stuff. It is not cricket and is Semitic. I am also opposed to sending POWs to work as slaves in foreign lands [i.e., the Soviet Union’s Gulags], where many will be starved to death.
Author: George S. PattonHuman beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
Author: George S. Patton