Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

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.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Lois McMaster Bujold

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.†

Lois McMaster Bujold

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Lois McMaster Bujold

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.

Lois McMaster Bujold