Badass General Patton Quotes

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

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.

The harder you train, the harder it is to surrender.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me.

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

You are never beaten until you admit it.

Success is not measured in rank or medals, but in the lives you touch and inspire.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

There is only one sort of discipline: perfect discipline.

Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, and without regret. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The greatest battles are not fought on paper or with weapons, but within oneself.

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

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Badass General Patton Quotes part 2

You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.

Discipline is doing what needs to be done even when you don’t want to do it.

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

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is watching.

There is no substitute for victory.

It’s not how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

I would rather live one day as a lion than a thousand years as a sheep.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

A real leader faces the music even when he doesn’t like the tune.

You don’t win wars by dying for your country. You win wars by making the other SOB die for his.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Sweat saves blood, and blood saves lives.

Don’t be a prisoner to your own excuses.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

You must do one thing every day that scares you.

A good leader needs to have a backbone, not a wishbone.

Life is like war. You have to fight for every inch.

Success is not for the chosen few, but for the ones who choose to work hard.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Be willing to do what others won’t, to achieve what others can’t.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Success is not about being the best. It’s about being better than you were yesterday.