Robert Jordan Quotes

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

~ Robert Jordan

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

~ Robert Jordan

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

~ Robert Jordan

Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do what is best,And I will take care of the rest.But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing.Trust is the color of a soul's last breath.Trust is the color of death.Give me your trust said the queen on her throne,for I must bear the burden alone.Trust me to lead and to judge and to rule, and no man will think you a fool.But trust is the sound of the grave-dog's bark.Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark.Trust is the sound of a soul's last breath.Trust is the sound of death.

~ Robert Jordan

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.

~ Robert Jordan

A man without trust might as well be dead.

~ Robert Jordan

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are. That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

~ Robert Jordan

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

~ Robert Jordan

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

~ Robert Jordan

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

~ Robert Jordan

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

~ Robert Jordan

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

~ Robert Jordan

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

~ Robert Jordan

That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?

~ Robert Jordan

Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time

~ Robert Jordan

Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he had been unable to change everything. He had not even known how to begin. Lews Therin began to maunder on about taxes and money creating jobs, but he might as well have been spilling out words at random for all the sense he made.

~ Robert Jordan

A secret spoken finds wings.

~ Robert Jordan

He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.

~ Robert Jordan

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

~ Robert Jordan

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

~ Robert Jordan

Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that.

~ Robert Jordan

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.

~ Robert Jordan

Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as mad as a hare in spring thaw. Twice every day he searched his bodyservant for poison, and he drank nothing but vinegar and water which he claimed was sovereign against the poison the fellow fed him, but he ate everything the man prepared for as long as I knew him. Once he had a grove of oaks chopped down because they were looking at him. And then insisted they be given decent funerals; he gave the oration. Do you have any idea how long it takes to dig graves for twenty-three oak trees? Why didn't somebody do something? His Family? Those not as mad as him, or madder, were afraid to look at him sideways. Tenobia's father wouldn't have let anyone touch Cheade anyway. He might have been insane, but he could outgeneral anyone I ever saw. He never lost a battle. He never even came close to losing.

~ Robert Jordan

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

~ Robert Jordan

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

~ Robert Jordan

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

~ Robert Jordan

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement

~ Robert Jordan

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

~ Robert Jordan

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

~ Robert Jordan

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

~ Robert Jordan

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

~ Robert Jordan

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.

~ Robert Jordan

Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.

~ Robert Jordan

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

~ Robert Jordan

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Trolloc Wars, we were often called the Battle Ajah. All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle. We were the counter to the dreadlords. The Battle Ajah. And now we stand ready, for the Trollocs to come south again, for Tarmon Gai'don. the Last Battle. We will be there. That is what it means to be Green. -Alanna

~ Robert Jordan

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

~ Robert Jordan

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.

~ Robert Jordan

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

~ Robert Jordan

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not.-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

~ Robert Jordan

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

~ Robert Jordan