Robert Jordan Quotes

What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well

My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.

Being an 18 year-old football player, there are temptations. There are girls. There's going out to parties. There's doing this; there's doing that. There is drinking and blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day it all comes down to maturity and what you have to do as a man to reach that next level. You have to be disciplined and make sacrifices.

Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

I just try to be the same guy I've always been. Calm, collected, and being a good decision-maker and delivering the ball to the right guys.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.