A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

— George S. Patton Jr.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

— George S. Patton Jr.

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

— George S. Patton Jr.

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

— George S. Patton Jr.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

— George S. Patton Jr.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

— George S. Patton Jr.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

— George S. Patton Jr.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

— George S. Patton Jr.

... It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self-confidence born of demonstrated ability.

— George S. Patton Jr.

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

— George S. Patton Jr.