That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everything better.
– Brandon Sanderson
Related Quotes:
- …all that is carried alongby the stream’s silvery cascade,rhythmically falling from the mountain,carried by its own current–carried where? – John Paul II
- It is good to know that every single title/rank you hold is earned in a high cost of hard work, not some random self given title/rank. – Euginia Herlihy
- Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence. – Pearl Zhu
- You don’t need a title to be a leader, and having a title doesn’t make you one. – Anthony T Eaton
- Being a good leader does not require you possessing a fancy title, no more than possessing a fancy title makes you a good leader. – Mark W Boyer
- You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever. – Mark Miller
- She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her. – Vatsal Surti
- So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important-”self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes. – Brandon Sanderson
- I can’t worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going. – 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
- Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work. – Brandon Sanderson
- You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling. – Brandon Sanderson
- Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he’s at his best, there’s a smirk underneath. – Brandon Sanderson
- When doing a job -” any job -” one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. – Hyman G Rickover
- You don’t think any job’s a job unless it’s your job. – Last Man Standing
- If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That’s a vision right there! – Janna Cachola
- True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title. – Angie Morgan
- you don’t need to have the biggest title to do the best job. – Robin S Sharma
- man is always equal to his purpose; when you control him, you do half a job but when you control his purpose, you do a total job. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I’m not attached to anything.I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty.I think that I will die with the boots on. – Fidel Castro
- If you try to do that which is not -˜our’ duty [the Self’s duty], it will create interference. – Dada Bhagwan
- The duty of planning the morrow’s work is today’s duty… – CS Lewis
- Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them. – 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
- They say they give their women more freedom, but there’s still the impression that the freedom was theirs to ‘give’ in the first place. – Brandon Sanderson
- It’s beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments. – Brandon Sanderson
- It’s beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments. – Brandon Sanderson
- Cleaning the wound is often more painfulthan the cut itself. – Brandon Sanderson
- Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I’ve discarded a belief in right and w – Brandon Sanderson
- 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
- 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
- She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone – Brandon Sanderson
- Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
- Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail. – Brandon Sanderson
- The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!--œThe only honest things I can say to you are insults. – Brandon Sanderson
- I froze, shocked. (And don’t try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.) – Brandon Sanderson
- You don’t really get to choose. We worship you, and that makes you our God. – Brandon Sanderson
- A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then. – Brandon Sanderson
- Progress is learning to control your world. – Brandon Sanderson