You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“You learn more from bad art than you do from good art, as your mistakes are more important than your successes.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“In our hearts, we want to believe in—and would choose—great accomplishment and virtue. That’s why our lies, particularly to ourselves, are so… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Journey before destination. There are several ways to achieve a goal. Failure is preferable to winning through unjust means. Protecting ten innocents… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I could have traveled quickly. But all men have the same ultimate destination. Whether we find our end in a hallowed sepulcher… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“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… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Why, Elend! That’s almost romantic—in a twisted ‘I’m going to make my wife want to kill me’ sort of way.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“And...how much are we getting paid for achieving the impossible?” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Elend smiled. "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“That is always how it is, though, isn't it?” Shuden asked. “Those who can least afford extravagance seem to be the ones most determined… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“He says he’s letting the Stormfather judge you,” Moash added. “Jezerezeh, king of Heralds. He says that if you deserve to live, you will….”… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The stories say the Nightwatcher might be capable of that. . . . Powerful spren. Vast spren.’ ‘Is he calling me vast?’ Syl said,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
