Brandon Sanderson’s 80 Best Quotes

11. If I die, I will do so having lived my life well.

The only death that is truly worth it.

12. Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds… But failure… Ah, now, that’s hard to believe, surely and truly.

No one wants to accept their failures or see the value in their lessons.

13. What is belief, what is faith, if you do not continue in it after failure?

Your faith should not be present only when something is going well in your life.

14. You’re getting weak, man. I won’t exploit that weakness. But others will.

We have to be careful to whom we show our vulnerability.

15. Pain loses its power when other things become more important.

We leave suffering behind when we understand that it is useless to hold on to it.

16. One way or another, we find the balance between who we want to be and who we need to be. For now, we can be satisfied with who we are.

The balance we must pursue to have peace.

17. Life before death. Strength before weakness. The journey before the destination.

Focus on the things that are really worth it.

18. There was rarely a crossroads in a person’s life. People changed gradually, over time.

We tend to make our problems bigger than they really are.

19. Given two works of artistic majesty, weighed equally, we will give more value to the one who made it first. It doesn’t matter what you believe. It matters that you believe before anyone else.

The first ones tend to be the most important.

20. The purpose of a narrator is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think about.

Talking about the role of a narrator in a story.

21. I consider myself a man of principles. But what man does not consider himself? Even the murderer finds his actions moral in a certain way.

All people believe they are right in their principles and values, even if they are not the same as those of others.

22. If you’re always on time, that means you never have anything better to do.

Punctuality speaks highly of us and our sense of responsibility.

23. Men’s motivations never make sense. And yet, they always have it.

Everyone has their own reasons for moving forward.

24. A man works much more productively when he works for himself.

Eventually, people stop wanting to work for someone else.

25. Our calloused feet, our backs strengthened by carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of the experiences we have lived.

Everything we experience has a reason and a lesson, even if we don’t see it at the time.

26. It’s a thing of nature. For every push there is a pull. A consequence.

Everything we do has a consequence, positive or negative.

27. Change did not scare him. Change was an opportunity to become something you were not.

Every change is an opportunity to be better.

28. Too many scholars think that research is just a brain search.

All research is a personal process to understand what we do not know.

29. Books can store information better than we can…, what we do, and books cannot, is interpret. So if no conclusions are going to be drawn, you can leave the information in the texts.

Books contain thousands of stories and knowledge.

30. Sometimes the prize is not worth the cost. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

The objective we seek does not always justify the means we use.

31. A man can only lead when others accept him as a leader, and he has only the authority given to him by his subjects.

Every leader must earn the respect and support of his group.

32. The fact that most people are decent does not make their decency worth less to society.

Just because something is accepted by the majority does not mean that it is good.

33. Their prayers, their beliefs, their mythology. Many are very similar: derivations or sects of each other.

Almost all beliefs or religions have a similar origin.

34. Entropy shakes its fist at you in anger for being smart enough to organize the world.

The world does not remain one way, because we are constantly changing.

35. Bitterness is more often repaid than kindness.

We tend to give more importance to negative feelings than to positive things.

36. Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things that a man took as an opportunity, a man of faith took as a sign.

We can create our own miracles with the chances we take.

37. The truth can never be defeated, Sarene. Even if people temporarily forget it.

The truth may take time, but it always comes.

38. You don’t stop loving someone just because that person hurt you. It would certainly make things easier if that happened.

When we love we always give many more opportunities than necessary.

39. I am also sincere. So sincere, in fact, that sometimes I expel lies through my mouth. There is no place for them inside me.

Lies never go anywhere.

40. But he had discovered that imaginary things were often the only thing that had real substance in life.

Sometimes you need to have a little imagination to move forward in reality.

41. But each of us is many different people, and you can tell a lot about a person by what he carries with him.

Each person has their own way of being.

42. Making fun of a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun at first, but the hangover is hellish.

Nobody has the right to make fun of another person.

43. Believing is not simply a thing for good times and bright days.

Believing also implies a commitment for good and bad times.

44. If anyone is reading these words, know that power is a heavy burden. Try not to get caught in their chains.

Power can consume us to the point where we lose who we are.

45. Philosophy? What does that work for? Isn’t it the art of saying anything in as many words as possible?

Philosophy is the beginning of all sciences.

46. ​​A loved one recovering from an illness, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long-lost friend, the great doctrine or general ideals that seemed to make men believers. It was simple magic in the world around them.

Everyone appreciates their good fortune differently.

47. Expectations are like a piece of fine ceramics. If you hold it too hard it is more likely to crack.

The biggest disappointments come from high expectations that we are not able to meet.

48. Everyone knows that ice cream is worth it when it’s cold. Like all virtuous things, you have to suffer to earn the reward.

Suffering also leads us to better appreciate the good things that come to us.

49. Trying to guess what people want from you will only lead to chaos, Sazed said. You can’t please everyone.

It is impossible to satisfy all the people who exist, but we can please ourselves.

50. That’s the point, isn’t it? We have to keep living, no matter how difficult it is. We will win in the end.

Anything worthwhile is difficult at first.

51. The brightest ideas in the world won’t be able to save your kingdom if no one listens to them.

It takes more than good will to create big change.

52. I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and if you’re not careful, those other thoughts lead to actions. Actions are tiring.

Our thoughts can be harmful if we do not control them.

53. War is even worse than politics. At least where politics takes place there are usually pleasant hors d’oeuvres.

War never leaves more in its wake than destruction and resentment.

54. Being offered loyalty is like being infused like a gem, gaining the fearsome license to destroy not only your own entity, but that of everything in your charge.

Not all rulers are there to seek the good of their people, but to satisfy their need for power.

55. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our studies.

If we don’t put what we know into practice, then it is just accumulated knowledge lost.

56. It’s easy to believe in something if you always win… Losses are what defines a man’s faith.

The most difficult moments are the ones that demonstrate someone’s worth.

57. They suddenly became dangerous. Like a calm day that turns into a storm.

There are evils that we do not see coming until it is too late.

58. As soon as one revolution achieves its objective, another begins to be planned.

This is because no one will ever be completely satisfied.

59. Don’t run if you only have the strength to walk.

It is better to do something slowly but surely than to rush and ruin it.

60. Unconscious ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

Ignorance is part of human nature because we do not know everything, but nothing justifies acting in a way if you know it is wrong.

61. This world is sometimes a storm. But remember, the sun always rises again.

Things can always get better tomorrow.

62. I worry about what people will say about me.

It is very common to pay too much attention to other people’s opinions.

63. Historians can do whatever they want with the past. A thousand years from now, will I be remembered as the man who protected humanity from a powerful evil? Or will I be remembered as the tyrant who arrogantly tried to become a legend?

No one can know how he will be remembered after he dies.

64. Our faith is often stronger when it should be weaker. That is the nature of hope.

Hope is the last thing you lose.

65. You didn’t take a step and suddenly you found yourself in a completely new situation.

Things change little by little, never all at once.

66. But you cannot kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you have never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am the hope.

Hope only dies if we want it to.

67. I write these words in steel because nothing else can be trusted that is not defined in metal.

Have conviction in what you say.

68. Every man is a hero of his own story.

We all have the potential to be protagonists.

69. I died in that abyss. Now you have to deal with my vengeful spirit.

You can’t expect someone you hurt to come back to you with open arms.

70. Never strike first. If you have to give the second, try to make sure there is no third.

It is preferable to wait for the perfect moment to act.

71. It is a time of change. Maybe it is also a time to learn other truths, other customs.

New beginnings can bring new rewards.

72. He did not consider madness to be any excuse for irrational behavior.

Nothing justifies an act based on bad intentions.

73. Perhaps someone else, reading my life, considers me a religious tyrant. He may call me arrogant. What makes that man’s opinion any less valid than my own?

You cannot fight against the opinions of others, but you can strengthen your own.

74. It is not the destination that matters, but how you get there.

It is along the way where we learn everything we need for our lives.

75. I declare that no achievement has as great substance as the path taken to achieve it.

It doesn’t matter if you have the success you’ve always wanted if you’ve gone above and beyond to achieve it.

76. I bring peace through understanding.

Seeking a world without war.

77. Don’t look for luxury without commitment. See the strengths in all the weaknesses.

If you are not responsible for your actions and what you acquire, everything will take its toll on you.

78. When one dedicates himself to doing nothing, he is lazy; but if there are two of them who do nothing, it is already considered a lunch break.

Sometimes things need another perspective.

79. My dear friend – Breeze replied -, the meaning of life is to get others to do the work for you. Do you know anything about basic economics?

Looking for the easy way.

80. Inside, it’s me. A very different me than I was a year ago, but I can’t worry about that, so I just keep going and hope my feet take me where I need to go.

We are not the same people as yesterday, and we will not be the same tomorrow either.