Magic: The Gathering - Quotes from Flavor Texts

Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.

() - Crude Rampart

Success Despair Inspiration

He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand.

Squandered Resources

No rest. No mercy. No matter what.

Akroma's Memorial

There is no 'I' in 'team', but there is a 'we' in 'weapon'.

() - Catapult Master

Teams

"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever."
- Koth of the Hammer

Darksteel Plate

What doesn't grow dies. And what dies grows the Tarmogoyf.

Tarmogoyf

A lie always returns; be careful how you catch it.

() - Boomerang

Lies

Good strategists sieze opprotunities.
Great strategists make their own.

() - Shelter

Chances & Opportunities

'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight

() - Pendrell Drake

Happiness Failures & Mistakes Fate & Destiny Chance & Randomness

The mages found strange ways to spend their free time. Occasionally, they had contests to see whose kite was eaten last.

() - Pendrell Drake

Which is worse, nothing to defend, or no one to defend it?

() - Troubled Healer

Defense

'It is the duty of the strong to oppose any who threaten the weak.'
- The Southern Paladin

() - Vengeance

Duty Responsibility Strength

'It could be worse', said Gerrard, looking around. 'Well, maybe not...'

() - Shackles

'Day 31: I finally succeeded in my time reversal experiment!
Day 30: I might have a problem here.'
- Journal of the Prime Izmagnus

() - Inspiration

'Stray not into the path of darkness, or be lost forever.'
- Baki, Wizard Attendant

() - Dark Maze

The cautious are wary of their enemies.
The wise are also wary of their friends.

() - Cephalid Snitch

Safety

Slow and steady may not always win the race, but at least it doesn't end up splattered on the walls.

() - Overeager Apprentice

Safety

'Scholars possess such lofty knowledge that it shouldn't be surprising when they fall.'
- Hapless Researcher

() - Hapless Researcher

'By definition, madness ends in one of two ways: clarity... or death.'
- Frantic Purification

() - Frantic Purification

Craziness & Weirdness

'One thought opens a thousand eyes.
One sun brings a thousand dawns.'
- Lightbringer Creed

() - Lightbringer

'I don't rub salt in wounds. I use sulfur.'
- Matoc, Lavamancer

() - Flaring Pain

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Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Dory in Finding Nemo

Life Risk Safety

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

William Shedd

Courage Risk Safety Ships

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

Psalms - 46, 2-4

God Safety

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

Usher

Success

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Christian McCaffrey

Success

A man doesn't know his true strength until he fears for his life.

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 1: Blood Song

Despair

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Despair

Act on inspiration when it strikes.

Hwei, the Visionary in League of Legends

Inspiration

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Rod Serling

Writing Ideas Inspiration

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Teams

You said we're a team.
One person struggles, we all struggle.
One person triumphs, we all triumph.

Jason Lyle in Coach Carter

Teams

Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

New Moon Luna in Epic Seven

Lies

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Fourth Wing

Lies Truth

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss

Benjamin Button in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Life Chances & Opportunities

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait for too long, you'll miss them.

Chances & Opportunities Sunrise

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness Revenge

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

Benedict Wells

Failures & Mistakes Breakup Beginning

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Failures & Mistakes Intelligence

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Small Things Fate & Destiny

Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.

Mona in Genshin Impact

Fate & Destiny

There are no coincidences, Delia... only the illusion of coincidence.

V in V for Vendetta

Chance & Randomness

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Albert Einstein

Chance & Randomness

The best defense is to bite first.

Naafiri, the Hound of a Hundred Bites in League of Legends

Defense

The only way you can get a hit is if you take a swing.

Sean McDermott

Defense

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Earl Wilson

Duty Temptation

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Indira Gandhi

Duty

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

Power Responsibility Strength

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Kevin Bacon

Life Responsibility

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