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Everything Patton said was a quote:

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tire, more hungry. Keep punching.

Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts.

Real warriors give great lines:
Vice Admiral Halsey was at sea in his flagship, USS Enterprise, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Upon learning of the Japanese attack, he was rumored to have remarked, "Before we're through with 'em, the Japanese language will only be spoken in hell."

Two great actual lines from the Spartans at Battle of Thermopylae:
After being to told to lay down their arms: Molon Labe, "Come and take them"
After being told that the Persian arrows will block out the sun: "So much the better...then we shall fight our battle in the shade."

Admiral Beatty upon seeing British battlecruisers sunk one after another at Jutland, "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today." Ironic lines: Commander of Wake Island after repulsing the first Japanese invasion: "Send us more Japs!"

General John Sedgwick, seconds before being struck down: "I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."