“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
George S. Patton
Tag: Quote of the Day
14NOV2018 – Quote of the Day
“The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.”
George S. Patton
13NOV2018 – Quote of the Day
“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”
George S. Patton
12NOV2018 – Quote of the Day
“When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.”
George S. Patton
11NOV2018 – Quote of the Day
“Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?”
George S. Patton
Murphy’s Law must also apply to war.
10NOV2018 – Quote of the Day
A prince ought also to show himself a patron of ability, and to honour the proficient in every art. At the same time he should encourage his citizens to practise their callings peaceably, both in commerce and agriculture, and in every other following, so that the one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes; but the prince ought to offer rewards to whoever wishes to do these things and designs in any way to honour his city or state.
Niccolo Machiavelli
09NOV2018 – Quote of the Day
Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli
This is horribly manipulative but it sounds accurate. Good information to have if you’re on either side of the equation.
08NOV2018 – Quote of the Day
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
What if you’ve lost both?
07NOV2018 – Quote of the Day
The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
06NOV2018 – Quote of the Day
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
Niccolo Machiavelli