Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.”

— Robert Jordan

402. “There were questions one asked, and questions one did not. That was strong custom. And friendship.”

— Robert Jordan

403. “Once you catch a disease and survive, you can’t get it again.”

— Robert Jordan

404. “Two Rivers, craftsmen were revered. And their marksmen were the best the world knew. An elite group of Two Rivers men, armed with the new firing sticks men were calling rifles, served with the Aiel in their peacekeeping campaigns in Shara. It was the only place war was known in.”

— Robert Jordan

405. “Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when he left them, they smiled as if they would welcome him back. That was all he ever really wanted from women; a smile, a dance, a kiss, and to be remembered foundly.”

— Robert Jordan

406. “The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.”

— Robert Jordan

407. “With experience comes a determination to be set in your ways, to avoid new experiences.”

— Robert Jordan

408. “I know how to take a man out of his miseries. Give him a swift kick, or else get him drunk and find him a pr-...”

— Robert Jordan

409. “Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn’t mean it has to be bad.”

— Robert Jordan

410. “The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests.”

— Robert Jordan

411. “If you don’t know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”

— Robert Jordan

412. “Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.”

— Robert Jordan

413. “Bloody flaming ashes.”

— Robert Jordan

414. “In war, as in farming, you sometimes had to step in and get knee-deep in the muck.”

— Robert Jordan

415. “This was not the first time she had squeezed meanings from his words that he never knew were in them.”

— Robert Jordan

416. “Asha’man, kill!” -Mazrim Taim.”

— Robert Jordan

417. “That had the irritating sound of an old saying.”

— Robert Jordan

418. “Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.”

— Robert Jordan

419. “He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He.”

— Robert Jordan

420. “It left a feeling of something not done.”

— Robert Jordan

421. “I expect you will not lack for company after I go. Just remember that some women see a man with their hearts, while others see no more than a bauble to wear, no different than a necklace or a bracelet. Remember that i will come back, and I am one who sees with her heart.”

— Robert Jordan

422. “I’ve come to give you your gift back, Mordeth,” Cauthon whispered. “I consider our debt paid in full.”

— Robert Jordan

423. “Women lied to get a man into bed, and they lied worse once they had him there.”

— Robert Jordan

424. “Women were always happy for a chance to educate a boy when he was young; Mat thought they assumed they could educate him out of becoming a man if they tried hard enough.”

— Robert Jordan

425. “A man can get killed in there.”

— Robert Jordan

426. “You never could tell what a man would do when he was drunk, even if that man was your own self.”

— Robert Jordan

427. “It’s one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don’t know exactly how.”

— Robert Jordan

428. “Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.”

— Robert Jordan

429. “Rand noticed trees split open as if struck by lightning. “The cold,” Lan answered when he asked. “Sometimes the winter is so cold here the sap freezes, and trees burst. There are nights when you can hear them cracking like fireworks, and the air is so sharp you think that might shatter, too. There are more than usual, this winter past.” Rand shook his head. Trees bursting? And that was during an ordinary winter. What must this winter have been like? Surely like nothing he could imagine.”

— Robert Jordan

430. “He pushed a hand inside the blankets to feel her cheek, her shoulder. Trickles of water ran across her face as her hair melted. He was cold, but she was ice. She needed every scrap of warmth he could find for her... His sense of touch, enhanced by the Void and saidin, soaked in the feel of her. Her skin made silt feel rough.”

— Robert Jordan

431. “Women could compress a great deal into one look.”

— Robert Jordan

432. “That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?”

— Robert Jordan

433. “Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women.”

— Robert Jordan

434. “There was nothing a woman would not tell you if you kissed her enough.”

— Robert Jordan

435. “The only rules he wanted to remember were “never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars” and “never gamble without knowning a back way out.”

— Robert Jordan

436. “Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”

— Robert Jordan

437. “There was a difference between being proud of a grand fireplace in your hall and walking into the flames.”

— Robert Jordan

438. “I’ve stayed with you this long, Rand. Why would I stop now?” Loial.”

— Robert Jordan

439. “Afterwards, we will do as we must. As we do now.”

— Robert Jordan

440. “I’d run. But maybe you can’t run. Think of that, too.′ His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. ‘Sometimes you can’t run.”

— Robert Jordan

441. “Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. 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. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.”

— Robert Jordan

442. “I may lead you wrong now and then, but in the end, you can be sure that I’m always a safe bet.”

— Robert Jordan

443. “You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.”

— Robert Jordan

444. “Light, women would believe anything about a man so long as it was bad. And the worse it was, the more they had to talk about it.”

— Robert Jordan

445. “You never escape the traps you spin yourself.”

— Robert Jordan

446. “He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.”

— Robert Jordan

447. “One of the first rules he’d learned in life was to never fight a man when you had an equal chance of losing.”

— Robert Jordan

448. “Being a soldier is about keeping your terror in check.”

— Robert Jordan

449. “Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.”

— Robert Jordan

450. “Its time to role the dice.”

— Robert Jordan