Some of my favorite Patton quotes that McCain needs to hear:
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
Always do everything you ask of those you command. (Remember that "Fight!" salvo at the end of your acceptance speech, John?)
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
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.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
Just found your post. Wow, thank you for that! Words of wisdom from a true leader.