10 Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Action

Lois McMaster Bujold quotes on action

13. Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

27. 'All right,' Miles pulled Suegar to his feet, 'let's go preach to the unconverted.'

44. You are what you do.

88. God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.

92. His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

95. If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

105. Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.

122. We don't just march on the future, we charge it.

136. I guess it just doesn't look very heroic to sneak up behind somebody and shoot them in the back. I can't help thinking it would be more efficient, though.

142. When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.