Don’t think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we’ve acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act. - Steven Pressfield

When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.

I approve of all you say, gentlemen. The fleet's needs are many and urgent. One, however, must take precedence. This item the men need before all, and we must get it for them without fail and without deferral. We must get the men a victory.

For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.