Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

Trial by fire.' Roland whistled, patting Luce on the back. 'Show no fear.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.