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Brandon Sanderson Quotes about Giving Up

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Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

Brandon Sanderson
Giving Up, Responsibility, Guilt
Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.875, Macmillan

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Brandon Sanderson
Giving Up, Thinking, Want
Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1814, Macmillan

Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.

Brandon Sanderson
Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Fighting
Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.117, Macmillan

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