George Patton Quote by Scott Thorpe

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”

— George S. Patton Jr

“The worst plan executed quickly and violently is better than the best plan not executed at all.”

— David VanDyke

“Always do more than is required of you. —GEORGE S. PATTON”

— Jeff Goins

“War isn’t about dying for your country. It’s about making the enemy die for his.” Gen. George S. Patton”

— Lee Child

“Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in…

— Anton Chekhov

“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a…

— Adam Gopnik

“The striking circumstance,” Patton mused, “that, thousands of years later, necessity has again begat of invention identical solutions for identical problems is truly arresting.”

— Ladislas Farago

“many wars have been meticulously planned long in advance and are executed exactly according to the plan.”

— Robin de Ruiter

“There are no bad ideas. Only bad executions.”

— Meinos Kaen

“More people perish than want to. Death comes running with astonishing speed, strikes his victims with marvelous accuracy. These include generals, doctors, governesses, soldiers,…

— Robert Walser

“When it comes to assassination, execution is everything.”

— R.S. Gompertz

“Patton wrote in his diary on April 15th, the morning after his departure from II Corps: “War is very simple, direct and ruthless. It…

— Ladislas Farago