Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.”

— Robert Jordan

102. “The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.”

— Robert Jordan

103. “Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.”

— Robert Jordan

104. “Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.”

— Robert Jordan

105. “Dance well with a woman, and she’s halfway yours.”

— Robert Jordan

106. “He strains to hear a whisper who refuses to hear a shout.”

— Robert Jordan

107. “A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.”

— Robert Jordan

108. “If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.”

— Robert Jordan

109. “Hardness shatters; strength endures.”

— Robert Jordan

110. “Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.”

— Robert Jordan

111. “Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.”

— Robert Jordan

112. “What was the good of acting out fake stories? Why not go live a few stories of your own?”

— Robert Jordan

113. “First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.”

— Robert Jordan

114. “The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.”

— Robert Jordan

115. “Well, we’ll survive, the Light willing.” Some grinned and added, “And if the Light doesn’t will, we’ll still survive.”

— Robert Jordan

116. “What you practice too often, you use without thinking.”

— Robert Jordan

117. “Being in charge isn’t always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it’s about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they’re doing.”

— Robert Jordan

118. “Quite often, when a woman was agitated, she tried to soothe others whether they required soothing or not.”

— Robert Jordan

119. “The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.”

— Robert Jordan

120. “The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We’ve become what we needed to become.” Perrin.”

— Robert Jordan

121. “The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”

— Robert Jordan

122. “A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.”

— Robert Jordan

123. “The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As.”

— Robert Jordan

124. “The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”

— Robert Jordan

125. “An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.”

— Robert Jordan

126. “If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it.”

— Robert Jordan

127. “Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

— Robert Jordan

128. “I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn’t waste time raising a weak boy.”

— Robert Jordan

129. “Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.”

— Robert Jordan

130. “The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and lives are the threads it weaves. No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven.”

— Robert Jordan

131. “May we see the sun rise together, shade of my heart.”

— Robert Jordan

132. “There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.”

— Robert Jordan

133. “But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”

— Robert Jordan

134. “Life was only a dream, and all dreams had to end. Aiel.”

— Robert Jordan

135. “He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.”

— Robert Jordan

136. “Mashiara. Beloved of heart and soul, it meant, but a love lost, too. Lost beyond regaining.”

— Robert Jordan

137. “You have to have talent to some extent – I certainly hope I have talent – but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.”

— Robert Jordan

138. “I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement.”

— Robert Jordan

139. “It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.”

— Robert Jordan

140. “You trouble me so, Rand al’Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.”

— Robert Jordan

141. “Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything.”

— Robert Jordan

142. “Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”

— Robert Jordan

143. “Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”

— Robert Jordan

144. “When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You’re stunned, but you cannot hear enough.”

— Robert Jordan

145. “What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?”

— Robert Jordan

146. “As my Lord says, my Lord’s leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.”

— Robert Jordan

147. “We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.”

— Robert Jordan

148. “For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.”

— Robert Jordan

149. “I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.”

— Robert Jordan

150. “A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.”

— Robert Jordan