Quotes of: Patton Keyword

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Arthur Ashe

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

John Wooden

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Ethan Allen

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

George Armstrong Custer

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

George Crook

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Charles de Gaulle

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

Charles A. Lockwood

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

Chesley Sullenberger

Aft the more honour, forward the better man

Horatio Nelson

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

John R. Allen

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Eugene Cernan

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

Carl von Clausewitz

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

George P. Shultz

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

James Stockdale

Un optimiste, c'est un homme qui plante deux glands et qui s'achète un hamac.

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Daniel Ellsberg

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

David Korten

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

John Wooden