Graeme Rodaughan > Quotes

“Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“There always comes a time in life where you can either give up or step up.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“Those who are fearful will find courage.
Those who are fearless will not know courage.
Those who are doubtful will find faith.
Those who are certain will not know faith.
Those who are shameful will find honor.
Those who are shameless will not know honor.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton

“The oppression we all face is guarded by what we are unwilling to question.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“The man who walks in the shadow of vengeance is a different man from the man who walks in the light of justice.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“If you have not confronted true horrors, understood evil, suffered hopelessness and despair, found faith, and made yourself completely accountable for your own choices, actions and outcomes, then I can guarantee that any acceptance you pretend to have will be as brittle and temporary as a snowball in the middle of summer.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“I value liberty above all else. Without liberty, no other value can be realized.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“Behind every unquestionable belief is a system of control.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Traitor's War

“Humility will allow you to master what you need to learn, and to be fully present when the moment comes to use what you have mastered.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“If you love others, life will of necessity be tragic, beautiful, but tragic.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“If you wish to abrogate all responsibility for your moral and intellectual independence, then by all means - conform with the herd and obey blindly.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“Genuine leadership occurs as an act of service to empower others to be their best.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Metaframe Adept

“You can only lead from the front.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Day Guard

“Faith, humility, fanaticism, and arrogance walk the same path. Faith and humility seek to understand the way, fanaticism and arrogance assume they know the way.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton

“Anyone who thinks politics equals power has no understanding of either politics or power. The games of politics are sponsored by the powerful, and are designed to deliver a single end - to secure their power.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Day Guard

“Deflect, co-opt, absorb or annihilate. It doesn't matter if you're in a sword fight or conducting a worldwide military campaign, these are the options for dealing with your opposition.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Day Guard

“For those who die with honor, the touch of death is simply the unlocking of a door between this life and the next.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Traitor's War

“Cultivate resolve with daily practice. Maintaining your resolve to accept any outcome enables the courage to take any step.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Metaframe Adept

“You will discover that silence is a spectrum where there is no end to how deep you can go. It is there, in the eternal quiet, that you will find the mastery that you seek.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Traitor's War

“Certainty of the path precedes the first misstep.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton

“No plan survives contact with the enemy, and victory goes to those who can adapt to advantage when circumstances change.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“Damn it - I’m just going to have a go. No one ever won a game without attacking the goal.” - Anton Slayne”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“Where you believe your defenses are most certain, from that direction your nemesis will strike.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton

“He spent the rest of the flight wrestling with the whispering voices of his other discarded selves.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“Every successful conspiracy remains secret after completion. There is only the desired effect which will always be attributed to reasonable, plausible but false causes.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton

“It was good to have a purpose; everyone needed a purpose.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Day Guard

“Adaptability was the soul of initiative.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“What you ardently seek to avoid, you shall bring forth.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton

“The silence heard him and drank in his words. Hakron,”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“How can I unsee what I have seen?”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency