evidence: Top Striking While The Iron Is Hot Quotes [...] Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. — W.B.Yeats [...] The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. — Charles Caleb Colton