Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I want to get more and more sophisticated. I'm ready to go from being a kid to being a king.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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.

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.

You've got to lead from a position of strength.

I just want to be dominant.

I want to be dominant from day one.

You shall more command with years than with your weapons.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

To be a leader means to be able to move masses

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them.

I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.