Inspirational Quotes by Brandon Sanderson — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.”

“As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.”

“And don't waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing good”

“Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?”

“Vin paused. "And you have all of these religions memorized?”

“The Nelazan believed that there was beauty in darkness, and that the daylight was more profane. They saw the stars as the Thousand Eyes of Trell watching them. The sun was the single, jealous eye of Trell’s brother, Nalt. Since Nalt only had one eye, he made it blaze brightly to outshine his brother. The Nelazan, however, were not impressed, and preferred to worship the quiet Trell, who watched over them even when Nalt obscured the sky.”

“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong.”

“Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?”

“I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both.”

“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”

“Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.”

“To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.”

“That's what every religion teaches," Sazed said, frustration mounting. "Yet in each of them I find inconsistencies, logical leaps, and demands of faith I find impossible to accept.”

“What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue it after failure?”

“Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.”

“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?”

“The strong lines of the woman's”

“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real.”

“Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”

“There were no symbols on the breastplate, because he was not Radiant. Adolin had no idea what he was, other than the son of both Dalinar and Evi Kholin. The product of both of their hopes. He was Adolin Kholin. A man with very good friends.”

“Hope is a grand thing, and having heroes is essential to human aspiration. That is part of why I tell these stories. That said, you do need to learn to separate the story—and what it has done to you—from the individual who prompted it. Art—and all stories are art, even the ones about real people—is about what it does to you.”

“It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.”

“Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.”

“There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives.”

“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.”

“It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.”

“I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.”

“What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked.”

“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”

“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”

“The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.”

“I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.”

“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.”

“I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in the wrong places.”

“Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?”

“Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.”

“There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.”

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is”

“That caravan looks as if it’s all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater.”

“Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do.”

“So . . . ," I said. "You're saying that by the end of our training, you expect us to be able to use”

“We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.”

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”

“Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?”

“Do you know how many grand romances would have avoided tragedy if the hero had thought, "You know, maybe I should ask her if she likes me first"?”

“Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.”

“Wayne's a little attached to that hat," Waxillium said. "He thinks it's lucky.”

“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”

“You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know.”

“Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler.”

“Breeze strolled over to the table and chose a seat with his characteristic decorum. The portly man raised his dueling cane, pointing it at Ham. 'I see that my period of intellectual respite has come to an end.'”

“People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.”

“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”

“I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword.”

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.”

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…”

“You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.”