Quotes About Action

Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking the credit.

When you have a load to lift, you're better lifting than weeping.

Brand stared in sick disbelief. He'd been sure among all those lads someone would speak, for they were honest enough. Or Hunnan would tell his part in it, for he was a respected master-at-arms. The king or the queen would draw out the truth, for they were wise and righteous. The gods wouldn't allow such an injustice to pass. Someone would do something. Maybe, like him, they were all waiting for someone else to put things right.

In the end … the only thing a man can really do … is pick his moment. Watch for the opening, and recognise it when it comes, and seize it.

El necio ataca -le había dicho-. El sabio sonríe, observa y aprende...y luego ataca.

Better to do it, than to live with the fear of it, and so forth.

Cuando hay que hacer algo, lo mejor es no demorarlo para no tener que vivir temiéndolo.

Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

The fool strikes, she had said. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Perhaps the vengeance could wait, at least until he had a bigger blade to work with. You have to be realistic, after all.

An excessive and a brutal act, but better to act with too much force than too little. Better to be held in fear, than in contempt... There is no place for sentiment in politics.

never worry about what has been done, only about what will be.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want.

Dimbik had once been told that the best soldiers are rarely courageous. That was when he had been sure it was the career for him. He started to slide one hand towards his sword, far from sure what he would do with it once it reached the hilt.

Well don't just hit 'em, you lazy bastards!" he shouted in a broken voice. "Pull 'em!

Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than to live with the fear of it.

Taking vengeance... it might not answer no questions. It sure won't make the world a fairer place or the sun shine warmer. But it's better'n not taking it. It's a damn stretch better.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence." —Homer

it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.

We don't get much time, and time feeling sorry for yourself is time wasted.

Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can,

There is a time for wondering what a man wants, and there is a time for splitting his head. This is that second time.

My father always used to say, you want things right, you have to put 'em right yourself.