Quotes

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

“If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.”

Tone and volume. Find different levels for both.

One cannot apply logic as an absolute where human beings are concerned.

Expect honor from those you meet, and give them the chance to live up to it.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.

when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

Decisions are made and consequences follow, it is the way. Our task is to deal with the present.

When your efforts are not directed at a cause or a purpose, how will you know what to do day in and day out? How will you know what to say no to and what to say yes to? How will you know when you’ve had enough, when you’ve reached your goal...

What has been need not always be.

You stand as you always have.  A good man does what he must.

I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back, the passage went. He stumbled beneath the weight, shirtless under the sun, wearing only a loincloth. He tottered down a busy thoroughfare. People made way for him...

‘In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

The things that others have always seem better than what you have.

the more she studied, the more she hungered for knowledge.