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1 " He was not the strongest, the quickest, or the most talented, not by any measure. He knew this and knew he could not control this. However, he could control his effort, the work he put in, and there he would not be beaten. "
― Evan Winter , The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1)
2 " Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal. "
3 " The wars you'll wage aren't decided when you fight them. They're decided before that by the extent of your efforts and the substance of your sacrifices. "
4 " I'd rather live with a thing done poorly than do nothing and always wonder how things could have been. "
5 " The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve. "
6 " I can't imagine a world where the man holding a sword does not have the last say over the man without one. "
7 " Rage is love...twisted in on itself. Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less. "
― Evan Winter , The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)
8 " I’m not asking you to win. That’s not solely in your control,” Aren said. “I’m asking that you fight to win. Anything less is the acceptance of loss and an admission that you deserve it. "
9 " The wars you’ll wage aren’t decided when you fight them. They’re decided before that, by the extent of your effort and the substance of your sacrifices. They are decided by the choices you make every single day. So ask yourself: ‘how powerful do I choose to be? "
10 " only path to becoming what others cannot is to suffer what others will not. "
11 " And, like that, there was no going back. A Dragon had been called and someone would have to die. "
12 " The lie isn’t that we can’t be their equals. The lie is that they were ever anything but our equals. "
13 " Let them think me a monster,” the Dragon Queen thought. “I will be a monster, if it means we survive. "
14 " Every day must be hard for you. The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve. The days you do not improve are the days the men behind you close the distance. "
15 " A fighter who will only go into battle when they're at their best fights for pleasure and not principle. The things worth fighting for die in darkness if we'll only defend them in the sun. "
16 " moon, they’d be fighting in the dark. “It’s late,” said Oyibo, avoiding Tau’s eyes. Tau had conscripted his help after Yaw stopped showing up. “One,” Tau said. “Only one more.” “It’s just… it’s just you keep saying that… "
17 " In a small way, the world changed that day, when the Nobles of Scale Ozioma broke and ran, scattered by a new and horrible creature, born in Uhmlaba but bred in Isihogo. "
18 " At its essence, isn’t true leadership simply service? "
19 " To achieve greater results we must outlay greater efforts "
20 " I need to be the greatest fighter of the Omehi,” Tau said, fighting for calm, his fingernails digging into his palms. “Can you give me that?”Jayyed grew serious. “I can’t give you anything. It might be something you can take, if you’re willing.”“I am.”“We’ll see. The cost for greatness is high.”“I’ll pay anything.”“Your life?” Jayyed asked, causing Tau to stop. “That’s the price. Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal.”“Easily paid,” Tau told him. "
― Evan Winter
