Before They Are Hanged (The First Law Trilogy Book 2)

“Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to half-wits. A great leader puts others before himself. You would be surprised how acting so makes it

“Then you’ve got the chance to do better next time.” “Next time?” “’Course. Doing better next time. That’s what life is.”

Respect costs you nothing, and nothing gets a man killed quicker than confidence.”

Every man who’s worth a damn feels fear. It’s the use you make of it that counts.”

A great leader must share the hardships of his followers, of his soldiers, of his subjects. That is how he wins their respect. Great leaders do not complain. Not ever.”

Never to want for anything, or work for anything, or show the tiniest grain of self-discipline in a whole life must give a man a strange outlook on the world,

Laughing with a man was a good step forward. First comes the laughter, then the respect, then the trust.