Unless you do your best, the ...

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.
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.
 George S. Patton

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Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton

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