Quotes by George Patton

Quotes attributed to George Patton

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

An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

Success is how high you bounce
when you hit bottom.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Better to fight for something than
live for nothing.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

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