32 Quotes By George S. Patton


If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
George S. Patton on amazing

If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton on best

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All 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.
George S. Patton on best

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton on courage

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton on courage

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All 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.
George S. Patton on fear

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 on fear

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton on fear

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton on fear

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. Patton on fear

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

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton on good

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton on history

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton on history

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton on imagination

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
George S. Patton on learning

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton on love

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All 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.
George S. Patton on men

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton on men