George S. Patton Quotes | World War II General

George Smith Patton was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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

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

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”

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

“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.”

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

“Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.”

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

“You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.”

“Always do more than is required of you.”

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

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

“When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.”

“Fear kills more people than death.”

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”

- George S. Patton, World War II General