Gandalf is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists in J.R.R Tolkien’s novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is described as an older man with white hair, beard, eyes, and round red ears.
Gandalf is a wise wizard who possesses great power and wisdom beyond most mortals; he has long since given up his physical form to roam Middle-earth freely. Gandalf was born in Valinor, the land of the Valar during the Years of the Lamps to Curumo and Aiwendil, two Wizards who were later known as Saruman and Radagast, respectively.
He is a magical wizard who has appeared in countless adaptations, including radio shows, television shows, comic books, video games, toys, and movies.
These Gandalf quotes will inspire you to keep working hard and achieve your goals.
53 Gandalf Quotes That Will Motivate You For Success
1. “Even the very wise cannot see all ends.” ~ Gandalf
2. “It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” ~ Gandalf
3. “It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” ~ Gandalf
4. “The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart.” ~ Gandalf
5. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
6. “For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.”
7. “All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us.” ~ Gandalf
8. “True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.” ~ Gandalf
9. “The world is not in your books and maps. It is out there.” ~ Gandalf
10. “If we are to be successful, this will need to be handled with tact, and respect, and no small degree of charm…which is why you will leave the talking to me.”
11. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” ~ Gandalf
12. “Generous deed should not be checked by cold counsel.” ~ Gandalf
13. “However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses!” ~ Gandalf
14. “If in doubt… Always follow your nose.” ~ Gandalf
15. “Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.” ~ Gandalf
16. “If you wish to change the weather of the world, you should find yourself another wizard.” ~ Gandalf
17. “Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.”
18. “Others may contest your will, when it is turned to madness and evil.” ~ Gandalf
19. “Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!”
20. “You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you.” ~ Gandalf
21. “I think you should leave the ring behind, Bilbo. Is that so hard?”
22. “Do as I say! Swords are no more use here.” ~ Gandalf
23. “It’s the best news I have had since midsummer: it’s worth a gold piece at the least. May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!”
24. “I will not say Do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” ~ Gandalf
25. “If we are to be successful, this will need to be handled with tact, and respect, and no small degree of charm…which is why you will leave the talking to me.” ~ Gandalf
26. “Don’t underestimate the evil of gold.” ~ Gandalf
27. “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
28. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ~ Gandalf
29. “Don’t underestimate the evil of gold.” ~ Gandalf
30. “Go back to the shadow. You shall not pass!”
31. “Do not then stumble at the end of the road.” ~ Gandalf
32. “Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.” ~ Gandalf
33. “Well, all good stories deserve embellishment.” ~ Gandalf
34. “Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand —that and such hope as I bring.” ~ Gandalf
35. “You must settle its affairs yourselves; that is what you have been trained for. Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you.” ~ Gandalf
36. “Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the wise falter.” ~ Gandalf
37. “You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey’s end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.” ~ Gandalf
38. “Only a small part is played in great deeds by any hero.” ~ Gandalf
39. “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
40. “Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend.” ~ Gandalf
41. “A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he needs to.” ~ Gandalf
42. “Oh, it’s quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open.” ~ Gandalf
43. “You’ve been sitting quietly for far too long!” ~ Gandalf
44. “Yet it is not our part to master all tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” ~ Gandalf
45. “Fight! Fight to the last man! Fight for your lives!”
46. “If he had a name, it’s long since been lost. He would’ve been known only as a servant of evil. One of a number.” ~ Gandalf
47. “Oh, it’s quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open.” ~ Gandalf
48. “All your long years we have been friends. Trust me as you once did, let it go.” ~ Gandalf
49. “Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!” ~ Gandalf
50. “Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time… The stars wheeled overhead, and every day was as long as a life age of the earth… But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. I’ve been sent back until my task is done.” ~ Gandalf
51. “The wise speak only of what they know.” ~ Gandalf
52. “I did not give you that map and key for you to hold on to the past.” ~ Gandalf
53. “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” ~ Gandalf
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