Top 120 Jeff Wheeler Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Never let another person have control over your thinking. It is yours by right and by destiny.”

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52. “The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed, they are praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.”

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53. “Character is not developed in moments of temptation and trial. That is when it is intended to be used.”

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54. “We can learn from anyone, even our enemies. Knowledge can be twisted into any shape. Did not one of the wisest men teach that the least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold?”

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55. “If you only believe what you like, and reject what you don’t like, it is not truth you believe, but yourself.” – Possidius Adeodat, Archivist of Kenatos.”

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56. “Doubt is poison. You must fix your thoughts in your mind. Do not doubt. Believe and then act. Fear stops you from acting.”

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57. “Most people suffer from a lack of imagination. They don’t dare enough. But I do.”

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58. “The reason most people don’t arrive at a destination is they never embark.”

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59. “Power must be balanced, at least slightly. See what it has done to his wits? He rules out of fear and intimidation, not loyalty.”

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60. “The trouble with truth is that people are unwilling to be convinced that they have been deceived. It impugns their judgment. It stains their character. People love themselves above all.”

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61. “But the most rare are the ones that are both invisible to us and to others. Those we are blind to. They may be our greatest weakness of all.”

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62. “It’s been my experience, Owen, that when everyone agrees on some point of fact, it tends to be the biggest deception of all.” She reached out and tousled his hair. “Remember that. Never trust another person to do your thinking for you.”

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63. “I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Sometimes silence, at the proper season, is wisdom and better than any speech.”

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64. “There is no anger above the anger of a woman. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean.”

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65. “Memories had painful edges that could still cut.”

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66. “Too many people are frightened. They want youth to last. They complain bitterly if sickness comes. But the world is always in tumult, and fortunes rise and fall and fail. It is the ambitious who accomplish things. It takes courage to be ambitious, for never was anything great achieved without risk.”

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67. “Vanity comes naturally to all of us. Every human is, to their own mind, the center of all known worlds – the axle on which it all turns. And yet their knowledge is but their own perception of the things around them, and their feelings are inescapably colored by their perceptions of the world’s wants and its merits.”

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68. “If I did not get what I wanted, I suffered; if I got what I did not want, I suffered; even when I got exactly what I wanted, I still suffered because you cannot hold on to anything in the physical world forever.”

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69. “But remember the nature of secrets, Owen. If you share yours, it will stop wriggling inside your chest. And it will start wriggling inside hers. Secrets always want to come out.”

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70. “I have heard that in moments of extreme terror and suspense, our minds can deliver to our aid a remedy for the situation if we have the courage not to flinch from it. Too often we are doomed to fail simply because we believe too quickly that we will.”

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71. “There was a feeling in her heart. No, it wasn’t a feeling. It was a whole jumble of them all crowding in on her at once. Gratitude, respect, admiration, loyalty, concern, compassion, and the desire to please. For the first time in her life, she realized what that special mixture was called. Love.”

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72. “Fools convince themselves their enemies are their true friends.”

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73. “He had always taught her, from earliest childhood, that she could choose her actions, not the consequences of those actions.”

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74. “As I have studied the tomes of the ages, I have discerned that our behavior flows from three main sources. Desire. Emotion. Knowledge. Is it not the sign of a true maston when all three are harmonized? When they are, great power comes from the Medium to aid us.”

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75. “There was something in a tome I once read. What is the good of dragging up sufferings that are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?”

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76. “For you will always draw near toward that which you, secretly, most love.”

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77. “It’s been my experience, Owen, that when everyone agrees on some point of fact, it tends to be the biggest deception of all.”

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78. “Strange how people yearn to become holy only after years of depravity.” She smiled knowingly. “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”

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79. “A wise leader, a past King of Wayland actually, wrote this in his personal history at the end of his very successful reign. I found his advice in the Archives and think it some of the wisest advice ever written: ‘Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

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80. “What you will learn is knowledge that you cannot share within the mortal world. Possessing it will make you different from others. It will give you great wisdom, Phae. However, in much wisdom is much grief. And they that increase knowledge also increase sorrow. As you learn the truth, you will grieve. But I promise you that the fruit of that knowledge, while bitter to the taste, is also most sweet too.”

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81. “One of the ancients once said that the face is the mirror of the mind, and the eyes – without speaking – confess the secrets of the heart.”

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82. “A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. Beware of those desires.”

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83. “It was not fair, but she realized that most creatures suffered for mistakes not their own.”

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84. “One of the strangest things about life is that we are as much defined by our hopes as we are our secret fears. We are, for the most part, the product of what we think about the most. Our minds are fertile beds, like these flower boxes. What would happen if the gardener did not pull out the weeds?”

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85. “What we do tomorrow starts with a thought. Truly the best way to predict your future is to create it.”

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86. “Isn’t it tragic how we women always compare ourselves to one another? Comparing our faults to others’ perfections?”

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87. “The strongest bonds come from families – those we are born into and those we choose.”

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88. “He realized that it was difficult to be patient and wise when his mouth was blistering with unspoken insults.”

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89. “Power. There was power in being able to control how others reacted to you.”

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90. “You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if they could but think to use it.”

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91. “You can tell a lot about a man by the dogs he keeps on a leash and the ones he lets roam free.”

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92. “In my experience, what is called magic is not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

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93. “To fully master your mind, you must learn not to react to being observed by others. We naturally seek to please. To be acceptable. And in so doing, we give others – even our loved ones – power over our minds.”

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94. “Be at peace with your own soul, then the heavens and the earth will be at peace with you. The Druidecht are truly wise.”

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95. “That’s the thing about stories. They can touch on truths that some people just are not ready to hear.”

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96. “Work has a way of cleansing the mind.”

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97. “The worse a person is, the less he feels it.”

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98. “Remember – sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

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99. “Throughout the lives of mortals, there are always pivotal moments. Most often, those moments are so subtle we barely appreciate how momentous they are. A wayward rebuke by a thoughtless father can doom his children to a misunderstanding of their gifts or abilities. Those small moments, those key moments, are often never seen by the rest of the world. They alter the course of someone’s life.”

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100. “He found sarcasm to be an adequate defense in such moments. “I could have him killed at any time, my lord,” he said knowingly, his eyes bright. “But it would grieve me to make Elysabeth suffer. So I patiently wait for the man to get the pox.”

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