The 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!
George S. Patton Jr.
Born: November 11, 1885 Died: December 21, 1945
General George Smith Patton, Jr. (11 November 1885 – 21 December 1945) was a senior officer of the United States Army, who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. He was known in his time as "America's Fightingest General".
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View PlansIt is not the American soldiers duty do die for his country. It is the American soldiers duty to make the enemy die for his country.
Always do everything you ask of those you command.
<b>There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.</b> Any great military operation takes careful planning or thinking. Then you must have well trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory; success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part or margin in everything. That's where prayer comes in.
Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.
When in doubt, ATTACK!
We then went to the swimming pool which is beyond the reception room. This was the finest pool I had ever seen, with red-and-green submerged lights, and a diving board in polished duraluminium.
continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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.
The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more.
... George S. Patton
To be a good soldier a man must have discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and in his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to his comrades and to his superiors, and self-confidence bom of demonstrated ability.
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Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.