George S. Patton
George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr.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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth11 November 1885
CountryUnited States of America
jobs real hero
All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.
mediocrity tradition walks-of-life
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
doubt when-in-doubt
When in doubt, ATTACK!
disposition function staff
Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.
uplifting prayer people
But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.
military ostentatious
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
leadership sports blame
Remember praise is more valuable than blame.
army men tanks
My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.
military perfect succeed
...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
suicide military moving
Infantry 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
motivational leadership army
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
army personal-opinions years
We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans.... My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years.
humble able difficult
The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.
military war mean
An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.