US Army General George S. Patton’s Best Quote Of All Time Is Simple and Effective: ‘By perseverance, and study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.’

US Army General George S. Patton’s Best Quote Of All Time Is Simple and Effective: ‘By perseverance, and study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.’

“By perseverance, and study, and eternal desire, any man can become great,” said Gen. George S. Patton, who could not read or write until age 11, repeated his plebe year at West Point and went on to turn the Battle of the Bulge. Perseverance ran out on December 9, 1945, near Speyer, Germany, when his 1938 Cadillac, driven by a 19-year-old private, collided with an Army truck on the way to a pheasant hunt; Patton broke his neck, said ‘How awful w…