If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
– Brandon Sanderson
Related Quotes:
- Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me. – Nelson Mandela
- The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break. – Anthony Liccione
- Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. – Bryant McGill
- The Librarians control the information… They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power. – Brandon Sanderson
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Chains of gold are still chains. – Robert Thier
- That’s what trust is. It’s about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you. – Brandon Sanderson
- The world isn’t fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening? – Brandon Sanderson
- Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. – Michael Foot
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important. – Brandon Sanderson
- To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way. – Brandon Sanderson
- Let’s stop judging others, and relieve them of the heavy burden they are carrying on their shoulders because of us. – Saurabh Sharma
- Guilt can weigh you down; like being bound in lead chains in a deep murky lake, making you spend the rest of your life gasping for air. – Brownell Landrum
- If you can read the book and say, -˜Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.- (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) – Brandon Sanderson
- For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream. – Brandon Sanderson
- Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope. – Brandon Sanderson
- Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. – Brandon Sanderson
- What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn’t prevent men from acting like monsters? – Brandon Sanderson
- Though most expect young men to be fools, I’ve noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child. – Brandon Sanderson
- Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception – Brandon Sanderson
- Never go on a date unarmed.- Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are. – Brandon Sanderson
- I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like. – Brandon Sanderson
- If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I’ll stop them. – Brandon Sanderson
- Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail. – Brandon Sanderson
- Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail. – Brandon Sanderson
- Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests – Johannes Kepler
- Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others. – Ken Wytsma
- There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away. – Brandon Sanderson
- What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. – Dag Hammarskjld
- No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea. – Marty Rubin
- We’re reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we’ve placed on her, if we don’t lift the burden ourselves. – Steven M Greer
- Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God’s mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially. – Gary Rohrmayer
- Do not seek power for revenge. Seek power in order to avoid situations that would make you want revenge. – Salla Simukka
- Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God gives grace for endurance. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn’t lay it down. – Carsten Jensen
- Expectation is an anchor, a heavy burden every man is to first carry and then overcome if he is to ever reach the shorelines of his dreams. – Peter S Fogg
- I LOVE YOUDon’t just ‘think’ it. Say it before it’s too late – The burden of regret is a heavy cross to bear – Kamil Ali
- Helen hadn’t realized how heavy the burden of hate had been until she was allowed to put it down. – Josephine Angelini
- Come to Me, all you labor and are heavy laden, and I’ll give you rest! For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. – Kay Beatton