george patton

“ Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. ”

“ Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. ”

“ Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war. ”

“ 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 is never tired if the mind is not tired. ”

“ Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not he's a liar. ”

“ I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. ”

“ You shouldnt underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him. ”

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

“ A man must know his destiny, if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. ”

“ An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is a stupid lie. ”