George S. Patton Quotes

As long as you fight, you cannot lose... if you leave everything out there, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. To me you can never lose.

All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost - and will never lose - a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

I do not lose; I just do not get decisions sometimes. You lose when you quit. I have never quit. When it comes down to a decision, judges make a decision as to which fighter they want to win the fight. I have always been able to survive no matter whom they decide to give the fight to.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws.

The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.

That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

Losing isn't as bad as not fighting at all.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.

I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.