Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

George S. Patton - You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

George S. Patton - You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
George S. Patton


"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals." - George S. Patton

"๋†’์€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์†์„ ๋ป—์„ ๋•Œ ๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งž์„œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ํž˜๊ฒจ๋ฃจ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค." - ์กฐ์ง€ S. ํŒจํŠผ.


General Patton: Pursuing Goals Against Opposition


General George Smith Patton Jr. (1885-1945) was one of America's most celebrated and controversial military commanders. Known for his aggressive leadership style, tactical brilliance, and colorful personality, Patton led the U.S. Third Army to victory across Europe during World War II. His battlefield accomplishments include successful campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, and the liberation of Western Europe following D-Day. Beyond his military prowess, Patton was known for his motivational leadership philosophy and powerful quotes that continue to inspire leaders across various fields today. Despite his controversial temperament and occasional public relations challenges, his strategic genius and determination made him an iconic figure in military history.


์กฐ์ง€ ์Šค๋ฏธ์Šค ํŒจํŠผ ์ฃผ๋‹ˆ์–ด ์žฅ๊ตฐ(1885-1945)์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋…ผ์Ÿ์ ์ธ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ์ง€ํœ˜๊ด€ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ, ์ „์ˆ ์  ํƒ์›”ํ•จ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ํŒจํŠผ์€ ์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ œ3๊ตฐ์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ „์žฅ ์—…์ ์—๋Š” ๋ถ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด, ์‹œ์น ๋ฆฌ์•„์—์„œ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์ „ํˆฌ์™€ D-๋ฐ์ด ์ดํ›„ ์„œ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ํ•ด๋ฐฉ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์  ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ํŒจํŠผ์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋™๊ธฐ๋ถ€์—ฌ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์ฒ ํ•™๊ณผ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์—๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ช…์–ธ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…ผ์Ÿ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์งˆ๊ณผ ๊ฐ„ํ—์ ์ธ ๋Œ€์ค‘ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋ฌธ์ œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ์ฒœ์žฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐ๋‹จ๋ ฅ์€ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์  ์ธ๋ฌผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


George S. Patton


Understanding Patton's Quote


"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals." This powerful statement from General Patton encapsulates a fundamental truth about ambitious pursuits. In these words, Patton acknowledges that setting and striving for significant goals inevitably attracts resistance from others. This resistance—the "tug" he refers to—can take many forms: criticism, doubt, discouragement, or active opposition. What makes this quote particularly insightful is Patton's framing of this resistance as something to be expected and overcome, rather than avoided. It reflects his battlefield philosophy that forward momentum despite resistance is the path to victory.


"๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๋†’์€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ, ๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๋Œ์–ด๋‹น๊น€์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ํŒจํŠผ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์˜ ์ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ์•ผ์‹ฌ์ฐฌ ์ถ”๊ตฌ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ง„์‹ค์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ง์—์„œ, ํŒจํŠผ์€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•„์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ์ €ํ•ญ์„ ๋Œ์–ด๋“ค์ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ €ํ•ญ—๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋Š” "๋Œ์–ด๋‹น๊น€"—์€ ๋น„ํŒ, ์˜์‹ฌ, ๋‚™๋‹ด, ๋˜๋Š” ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์ด ํŠนํžˆ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ํŒจํŠผ์ด ์ด ์ €ํ•ญ์„ ํ”ผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทน๋ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์„ ์„ค์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํ•ญ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „์ง„ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์ด ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ „์žฅ ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Patton's Leadership Philosophy in Action


Patton's military career exemplified his own quote. Throughout World War II, he faced considerable opposition from both enemies and allies. His aggressive tactics were sometimes questioned by more cautious commanders, and his controversial personality created friction with superiors. Yet Patton's unwavering commitment to his strategic vision—despite this resistance—led to remarkable battlefield successes. His Third Army's rapid advance across France in 1944 demonstrated how pushing through opposition could achieve extraordinary results. For Patton, the "tug" against his goals came not just from the enemy but sometimes from within his own chain of command, yet he persisted in pursuing what he believed was the path to victory.


ํŒจํŠผ์˜ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์„ ์˜ˆ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ ๊ณผ ๋™๋งน๊ตญ ๋ชจ๋‘๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์ „์ˆ ์€ ๋•Œ๋•Œ๋กœ ๋” ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ง€ํœ˜๊ด€๋“ค์— ์˜ํ•ด ์˜๋ฌธ์‹œ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ์˜ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์€ ์ƒ๊ธ‰์ž๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๋งˆ์ฐฐ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ €ํ•ญ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํŒจํŠผ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ๋น„์ „์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ”๋“ค๋ฆผ ์—†๋Š” ํ—Œ์‹ ์€ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์ „์žฅ ์„ฑ๊ณต์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1944๋…„ ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ์ „์—ญ์„ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„๊ฒฉํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ œ3๊ตฐ์€ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋šซ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒจํŠผ์—๊ฒŒ, ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ "๋Œ์–ด๋‹น๊น€"์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ง€ํœ˜ ๊ณ„ํ†ต ๋‚ด์—์„œ๋„ ์™”์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง€์†ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


George S. Patton


Applying Patton's Wisdom Today


In today's competitive professional landscape, Patton's quote remains remarkably relevant. Ambitious goals—whether starting a business, pursuing innovative ideas, or challenging established norms—inevitably face resistance. This opposition might come from competitors, skeptical colleagues, or even friends and family who prefer the safety of the status quo. Patton's wisdom reminds us that this resistance doesn't indicate we're on the wrong path but is rather an expected part of pursuing significant achievements. Success often requires developing the resilience to move forward despite the social, emotional, or professional "tug" pulling against our highest aspirations.


์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ ์ธ ์ง์—… ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ, ํŒจํŠผ์˜ ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ๋†€๋ž๋„๋ก ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ํ™•๋ฆฝ๋œ ๊ทœ๋ฒ”์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ์˜ ์•ผ์‹ฌ์ฐฌ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ํ•„์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ €ํ•ญ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ž, ํšŒ์˜์ ์ธ ๋™๋ฃŒ, ๋˜๋Š” ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ํ˜„์ƒ ์œ ์ง€์˜ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒจํŠผ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ €ํ•ญ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ๊ธธ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์„ฑ์ทจ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž„์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œ์ผœ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ๊ณต์€ ์ข…์ข… ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ์—ด๋ง์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ์ , ๊ฐ์ •์ , ๋˜๋Š” ์ง์—…์  "๋Œ์–ด๋‹น๊น€"์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


The Courage to Pursue High Goals


Patton's quote ultimately speaks to the courage required for exceptional achievement. The "tug of people against you" he describes is a universal experience for anyone striving to rise above mediocrity or challenge conventional thinking. What separates those who achieve remarkable things from those who don't isn't the absence of opposition but the determination to persist despite it. In both military contexts and civilian life, Patton's wisdom reminds us that resistance to our highest goals isn't just an obstacle—it's often a sign that we're pursuing something truly worthwhile. By acknowledging this resistance as normal and developing strategies to overcome it, we honor Patton's legacy of bold leadership and unwavering determination.


ํŒจํŠผ์˜ ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ์„ฑ์ทจ์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์šฉ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” "๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๋Œ์–ด๋‹น๊น€"์€ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•จ์„ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ด€์Šต์  ์‚ฌ๊ณ ์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณดํŽธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์„ฑ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜ ๋ถ€์žฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์†ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๋‹จ๋ ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์  ๋งฅ๋ฝ๊ณผ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ์ƒํ™œ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ, ํŒจํŠผ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํ•ญ์ด ๋‹จ์ง€ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ข…์ข… ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ์ž„์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œ์ผœ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ €ํ•ญ์„ ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋‹ดํ•œ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ๊ณผ ํ”๋“ค๋ฆผ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๋‹จ๋ ฅ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํŒจํŠผ์˜ ์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


George S. Patton


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