Top 180 Brandon Mull Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”

— Brandon Mull

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2. “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

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3. “The love of reading can be contagious.”

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4. “When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.”

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5. “Let’s worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.”

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6. “Don’t let the brownies bite.”

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7. “We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.”

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8. “Choices determine character.”

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9. “Excruciating agony makes me cranky.”

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10. “I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you’ve started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.”

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11. “In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.”

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12. “Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

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13. “It’s easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.”

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14. “Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.”

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15. “Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard.”

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16. “The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness.”

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17. “Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?”

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18. “The purpose of existence is the education of the will. And the meaning of life is to learn to love the right things.”

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19. “False humility is more insulting than open pride!”

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20. “Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.”

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21. “The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.”

— Brandon Mull

22. “When you have to jump, you jump.”

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23. “An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”

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24. “I’ll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly – Grandma Ruth.”

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25. “Say no to death pies. Another good motto.”

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26. “One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.”

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27. “A lie twice believed is self decieved.”

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28. “Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.”

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29. “FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.”

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30. “A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them.”

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31. “Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”

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32. “Faith isn’t knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.”

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33. “Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.”

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34. “I don’t know how you’re standing here. Yet you haven’t broken. Not where it matters. Having come this far, I’m not sure you can be broken.”

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35. “Hard to call it a party without sardines.”

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36. “Nothing matters more than what happens in our minds,” Trillian said. “Your experiences in what you consider your real life in the real world only exist in your mind and in the minds of others. The mind is everything. And dreams are the playground of the mind.”

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37. “An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.”

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38. “Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day.”

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39. “Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.”

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40. “Mistakes happen. Learn from the past, but concentrate on the present and the future.”

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41. “Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.”

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42. “You can’t fully prepare. You do your best to acquire diverse skills. You try to learn from your successes and mistakes over the years. You try to assemble a team with varied talents and expertise. Mostly, you strive to stay calm enough to think clearly even under extreme pressure. You try to use the adrenaline for focus rather than panic. You stay on your toes, ready to improvise. And you hope for the best.”

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43. “In some ways, it’s easier to recognize your power when you’re calm and untroubled than when you’re distressed. Search out your talent in quiet moments. Don’t push too hard. You’ve done it once. You can do it again.”

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44. “We may be doomed, but why not enjoy ourselves? It will lessen the victory of our adversaries.”

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45. “Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home.”

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46. “Learn to recognize power in others. Become more conscious of your own power. It’s there.”

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47. “My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don’t deserve it.”

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48. “I’d rather die liking myself than hating myself.”

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49. “I guess Smart Seth is glad, he said reluctantly. But be careful. Idiot Seth is the guy to watch out for.”

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50. “I like pancakes.”

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