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Timur
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“It is better to be at the right place with ten men than absent with ten thousand.”
Timur (1336–1405) said by 1405 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in Harold Lamb, Tamerlane: The Earth Shaker (Garden City Publishing Co, 1928) p. 123. Variant: 'on hand' instead of 'at the right place'
“It is good to go swiftly and break an enemy’s power, before he has mustered his full strength. No greater army should be taken than can be maintained on the way.”
Timur (1336–1405) said by 1405 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in Harold Lamb, Tamerlane (1928) p. 123
“[T]here arose in my heart the desire to lead an expedition against the infidels, and to become a ghází; for it had reached my ears that the slayer of infidels is a ghází, and if he is slain he becomes a martyr. It was on this account that I formed this resolution, but I was undetermined in my mind whether I should direct my expedition against the infidels of China or against the infidels and polytheists of India. In this matter I sought an omen from the Kurán, and the verse I opened upon was this, "O Prophet, make war upon infidels and unbelievers and treat them with severity.”
Timur (1336–1405) said by 1405 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Abū Ṭāleb Hosayni, Malfuzat-i Timuri, on the expedition to Hindustan (India). Quoted in H. M. Elliot, ed. John Dowson, The History of India, vol. 3 (London: Trübner and Co, 1871) p. 394