Oathbringer Quotes

“The most important words a man can say are, "I will do better.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The question," she replied, "is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Love wasn't about being right or wrong, but about standing up and helping when your partner's back was bowed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“I had a splinter once," Shallan noted. "It eventually got out of hand.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“We certainly are an odd bunch."
"Yes. Seven people. Odd.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“If nobody asked questions, then we would never learn anything.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“I'm so storming clever that half the time, even I can't follow what I'm talking about.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“It is not perfection we seek, for perfection is impossible. It is instead consistency.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“I'm smart enough not to follow my own advice, thank you very much.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“You are worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“There is satisfaction," he said to Dalinar, "in creating a list of things you can actually accomplish, then removing them one at a time.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Pride doesn't win battles.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“For while life was painful, life was also sweet.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“We either learn together or we fall individually.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“What's the point of goals, if not to spur you to something lofty?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The most important words a man can say are, "I will do better." These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say.
The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says "Journey before Destination." Some may call it a simple a platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us.
But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.
To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“I will take responsibility for what I have done. If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“If stone met a man, stone might win--but if stone met humanity, then no force could preserve it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“People learn things from art.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“I have practice following fools in their reckless pursuits.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Perhaps that was the advantage to persistently messy hair--he managed to make it go with anything.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“It had given Dalinar access, again, to the necessities of life. Like wine.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“She liked being little. Little people could squeeze into places others couldn't, and could go unnoticed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The need for clean clothing outlived disasters. The end of the world could come, but that would only mean more bloodstains to wash.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.” “Plus one?” Shallan asked. “Sadeas counts twice.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing”
― Brandon Sanderson