"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

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

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."

"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time."

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

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."

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

"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country."

"The M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised."

"Pressure makes diamonds."

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no one - for I am the meanest motherfucker in the valley."

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."

"Now 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 will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going."

"I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight."

"If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself."

"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?"

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

"He was a great man....."

"Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so."

Battle, he said, was "the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base." Everyone was afraid but only the coward let his fear overcome his sense of duty. "We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly." Victory was the prize and worth everything.

Patton wrote this prayer for inclusion in a book for soldiers and sailors;
God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord.