Kai Bucher

“You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“If there was one thing she had learned on this trip, it was that leadership was more than titles and giving orders. It was an act of becoming something greater than what one had been before; it was doing things for others, things that they could not do themselves. It was a burden, true, but it refined as much as it hurt.”
― Brandon Sanderson, White Sand

“That is one opinion," Baon said with a nod. "But, duchess, let me give you one last lesson on leadership. This is your expedition, you determine its outcome. Failure and success—those are words for historians. Your job is to do the best you can with the resources allotted to you. Some of the greatest military victories in history were achieved by men who started their campains with completely different goals in mind. Some of the greatest disasters in history were achieved by men who pursued their goals with such a single-minded focus that they ignored other opportunities that came along. Flexibility is a leader's most useful weapon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, White Sand