312 Quotes by George S. Patton

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

My men don’t surrender. I don’t want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

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

I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards – You name them; I’ll shoot them!

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

If I win I can’t be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.