Quotes About Action

You must see the change you wish to be in the world.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

Should and would build no bridges. -Lini

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

p.s. In case you don't know what Do what needs to be done means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC missive from Mat to Galad

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.

Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything.

A girl or a fight, pouting lips or a flashing blade. Whichever dance you're dancing at the moment is always the most fun. Wouldn't you say?

Well perhaps you humans do have short lives but you do so much with them. Always jumping around, always so hasty and you have the whole world to do it in. - Loial

It was easier to ask forgiveness, than permission.

When an officer runs by with a look like that on his face, you don't ask if he needs help. You just follow!

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

Afterwards, we will do as we must. As we do now.

Do what you must, then pay the price for it, was what she had been taught, by the same women who had marked off those forbidden areas. It was refusal to admit the debt, refusal to pay, that often turned necessity to evil.

The choice isn't always about what you do, son, but why you do it.

Do what you must, and pay the price if you're wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too.

He had four rules concerning action and information. Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything. The man who waited to know everything was still sitting in his tent when the enemy burned it over his head.

once was happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but thrice or more indicated the actions of your enemies.

She could still hear Siuan going on about what she called the Law of Unintended Consequences, stronger than any written law. Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.

Some of us have more honor than others, earned by wisdom, actions and experience." Melaine held up a finger. "But it is important—vital, even—that each Wise One be willing to defend her own well. If she believes that she is right, she cannot let herself be shoved aside, even by other Wise Ones, no matter how aged or wise.

Matar era tan fácil como morir, decían los Aiel; cualquier necio podía hacer lo uno o lo otro.

Soon the sun would be edging above the horizon. Morning. A time for new hopes; a time to be up and doing. New hopes.