Quotes About Action

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

Forward, forward, men! Drive those fellows out of those woods! Forward! For God's sake forward!

I engage and after that I see what to do.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.

If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!