Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Everything in this world depends upon will.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.

Nothing can stop you until you choose to be stopped

My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.

You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!

Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible - and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

He is most powerful who governs himself.