A tribute to the Men I admire (please read they're good!)
(Some say Patton is was not a particularly wonderful man...but he had some wonderful ideas about leadership, teamwork, and he's downright hilarious)
"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team.
This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit."
- General George Patton Jr
You cannot be disciplined in great things and indiscipline in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you ever seen a few policemen handle a crowd?�
- General George S. Patton Jr, May 1941
"All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood."
- General George Patton Jr, "War as I knew it" 1947
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George Patton Jr
Pressure makes diamonds.
- General George Patton Jr
"Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men."
- General George S. Patton, Jr
"There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates."
- General George S. Patton, Jr
"If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
-General George S. Patton
"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops
My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!
- General Stonewall Jackson
"Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me." He added, after a pause, looking me full in the face: "That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave"
- General Stonewall Jackson
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees .
-General Stonewall Jackson(The General's Last Words)
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey
-General Robert E Lee
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He can not only forgive; he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which imparts sufficient strength to let the past be put the past.
-General Robert E Lee
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
-General Robert E Lee
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
-General Robert E Lee
(I love that he was the confederates General and still said this!!)
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less
-General Robert E Lee
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
-General Robert E Lee
"The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three."
-General/President Uylsses S Grant
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
-Abraham Lincoln
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
-Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
-Abraham Lincoln
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, September 11, 1956
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
-Dwight Eisenhower
"I would like to be the healthiest dead guy anybody sees. I would like to die healthy so everyone knows this is your temple and you just got done using my body and now in done."
-Walt Caughel
"We are individually responsible for how we run a cooperate body"
-Walt Caughel
"There is no way to walk alone in the body of Christ. No way to say you are a part of the Body and live your life in isolation. Avoidance in relationships in Christ is anti-biblical."
-Walt Caughel
"I don't have an excuse to be ungodly, I have the freedom to be selfless"
- Walt Caughel