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“You don’t have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences, if you must. But don’t pity me for my faith. And don’t presume that you’re better, just because you believe something different.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“How can she believe?” Vivenna said. Denth shrugged. “Seems like a good enough religion to me. I mean, you can go and see her gods. Talk to them, watch them shine. It isn’t all that tough to understand.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“for as long as he had lived, everything had been provided for him. Answers to his questions, entertainment to sate his whims. Almost by accident, he had become a glutton.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Priests are always easy to blame. They make convenient scapegoats—after all, anyone with a strong faith different from your own must either be a crazy zealot or a lying manipulator.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’ll have to learn to deal with failure.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“He met Lightsong’s eyes. “You are a god. To me, at least. It doesn’t matter how easily you can be killed, how much Breath you have, or how you look. It has to do with who you are and what you mean.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“You’re an excellent judge of character, Sarene—except your own. Often our own opinions of ourselves are the most unrealistic.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“I’m a thief, not a prophet. Sometimes, we just have to be what the job requires.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Ah, Ham, Kelsier thought. I wish I could explain everything to you. Plots behind plots, plans beyond plans. There was always another secret.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“The continued reading led to her second conclusion: The Lord Ruler was far more whiny than any god had a right to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Our art is called ‘Feruchemy,’ and it grants the ability to store certain physical attributes inside bits of metal.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Everything’s going to change, Sazed, and I can’t stop it.” Sazed smiled fondly. “Then, Mistress,” he said quietly, “simply enjoy what you have. The future will surprise you, I think.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“How could anyone understand the pain of a faith betrayed? He had believed. And yet, when he had needed hope the most, he had found only emptiness... Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don’t continue in it after failure. . . .”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Anyone can believe in someone, or something, that always succeeds, Mistress. But failure…ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value, I think.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire

“There’s always another secret,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Unapplied knowledge benefited no one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“you don’t wallow or mope. You aren’t allowed that luxury; guilt is for lesser men. You simply need to do what is expected.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Successful leaders all share one common trait—they believe that they can do a better job than the alternatives. Humility is fine when considering your responsibility and duty, but when it comes time to make a decision, you must not question yourself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“He could accept people with failings—even forgive them—but if he glossed over the problems, then they would never change.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Love must be allowed to flow both ways—if it is not, then it is not truly love, I think.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“I trust her, Tindwyl. Part of trust is belief.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“A tyrant needs no real reason for what he does,” Quellion said. He was a young man, but not foolish. At times, he sounded like other men Spook had known. Wise men. The difference, then, was one of extremity. Or, perhaps, timing?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“During the early days following the Catacendre, refugees from Terris had written down memories of their homeland, as no Keepers had remained.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“Already I fear that I have made things too easy for men. This”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“them. If you can raise someone’s expectation … if you can make them need something … that is the source of wealth. Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“The day of heroes has passed,” Uncle Edwarn said. “The stories of people breaking out of history belong to another world. We have reached an era of modernism, both louder and more silent at the same time. You watch. Where once kings and warriors shaped the world, now quiet men in offices will do the same—and do it far, far more effectively.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self