As Wise People Say

As Wise People Say
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.

He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- Attributed to General George Patton Jr
(from "A Genius for War" by Carlo d'Este)
"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team.
This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit."
- General George Patton Jr.
"Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far
forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with
battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts
must be dealt strictly with."
- General George S. Patton. ("War as I knew it" 1947)
It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can
be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by
correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.
- General George S. Patton Jr., April 1943
You cannot be disciplined in great things and indiscipline in small things. Brave
undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have
you ever seen a few policemen handle a crowd?
- General George S. Patton Jr, May 1941,
in an address to officers and men of the Second Armored Division.
"War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula"
- General George Patton Jr
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
"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"
- General George Patton Jr "War as I knew it" 1947
"Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed
when the fire fight starts"
- General George Patton Jr, "War as I knew it" 1947
"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."
- General George Patton Jr, "War as I knew it" 1947
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Pressure makes diamonds.
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell
them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
"We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the
quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their
nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

(addressing to his troops before Operation Overlord, June 5, 1944)
"Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over
with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker
we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get
to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just
like I'd shoot a snake!"
(addressing his troops before Operation Overlord, June 5, 1944)
"Make your plans to fit the circumstances."
"Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men."
"Take calculated risks."
"There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the
top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most
frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their
subordinates."
"You're never beaten until you admit it."
"It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance."
"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
"All glory is fleeting."
"A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances."
"Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence."
"Perpetual peace is a futile dream."
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that
such men lived."
"The test of success is not what you do when youre on top. Success is how high you
bounce when you hit bottom."
"If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead."
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with
their ingenuity."
"Audacity, audacity, always audacity."
(English translation of the French Proverb)
- General George Patton Jr's Favorite Saying
"Magnificent! Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to
insignificance.
God help me, I do love it so!"
"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite
point in the future."
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means
at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy
in the minimum amount of time."
"Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go
forward on foot!"
"It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that
ensures victory."
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."
"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."

-General George S. Patton
"I dont give a damn about the color of your skin,
just kill as many sons of bitches wearing green as you can."
- Attributed to Patton
"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops
"You must do your damdest and win."
-General George S. Patton
If you do what youve always done, youll get what youve always gotten.
Tony Robbins
If youre offered a seat on a rocket ship, dont ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think thats how you grow. When
theres that moment of Wow, Im not really sure I can do this, and you push through
those moments, thats when you have a breakthrough.
Marissa Mayer
If youre going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
Donald Trump
Pearls dont lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.
Chinese proverb
You cant outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the
outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or
you dont play at all. And if you dont play you cant win.
Judith McNaught
If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second
time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This
is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that
is the risk of doing nothing.
Denis Waitley
Go out on a limb. Thats where the fruit is.

Jimmy Carter
The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your
expectations.
Deepak Chopra
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life.
Steve Jobs
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Aristotle
You get what you settle for.
Thelma and Louise
If you dont build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.
Dhirubhai Ambani
I refuse to accept other peoples ideas of happiness for me. As if theres a one size fits
all standard for happiness.
Kanye West
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the
environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if its realistic or not.
Deepak Chopra
You cant connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking
backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You
have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has
never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
Leap and the net will appear.

Zen Saying
I dont think youre human if you dont get nervous.
Sidney Crosby
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
Think big and dont listen to people who tell you it cant be done. Lifes too short to think
small.
Tim Ferriss
Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times
Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over
and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Your dreams are ballbusters; theyre not the yellow brick road.
Kelly Cutrone
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will
be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Ellen DeGeneres
If we listened to our intellect, wed never have a love affair. Wed never have a
friendship. Wed never go into business because wed be too cynical. Well, thats
nonsense. Youve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way
down.
Annie Dillard
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
Dont be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better
abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on ones ideas, to take a
calculated risk and to act.
Andre Malraux quotes
Every man dies, but not every man really lives.
Braveheart
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you
might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J.K. Rowling
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb
Dont worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you dont even try.
Jack Canfield
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do
than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor,
catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
Mark Twain
Everything youve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
George Addair
Screw it, Lets do it!
Richard Branson
You cant have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to
you.
Marissa Mayer
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone
elses.
Billy Wilder
I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them Im doing it
myself.
Albert Einstein
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets
the timid. Everything else is commentary.
Iveta Cherneva
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk
it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting.
Karl Wallenda
The question isnt who is going to let me; its who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.

- General George S. Patton, Jr

mind is not tired."

Go out on a limb. Thats where the fruit is.

Leap and the net will appear.

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