Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.

“Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.”

The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realizing he lacks the truth, to seek it out. —From The Way of Kings, postscript

It is not perfection we seek, for perfection is impossible. It is instead consistency.