A good plan violently ...

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

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Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands.
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