If you face something, you can beat it.

Detmer

Where I'm from, the Emperor's personal physicians were buried with them when they died. It incentivized loyalty.

Georgiou

Georgiou: You don't scare me, human.
Culber: I don't need to. You're already terrified.

Georgiou: If I had time, I'd poison your children.
Culber: If I had time, I'd have children.

The Chain's turned Prime Directive violations into an art form. They make reckless contact with pre-warp civilizations that have something they want.

Vance

Detmer: I need failsafes.
Owosekun: The only failsafe you ever needed was you.

Book: You feel like home.
Burnham: So do you.

Spock believed that together, you could create something bigger than yourselves. That's what this quorum is. That's what Ni'var is. That's what the Federation is.

Burnham

T'Rina: You represent the Federation yet you invoke Ambassador Spock who left it behind.
Burnham: Doesn't mean he didn't love it. And it doesn't mean he wouldn't have returned someday.

Duty and joy go hand in hand. Duty is there so you can continue to pursue your happiness. And joy is there so that you have something real to fight for.

Gabrielle

Honestly, the notion of taking orders from you is deeply, deeply weird. Almost disturbing.

Stamets

Burnham: You are Qowat Milat. And you are my mother. Tell them that you know me. Tell them I can be trusted.
Gabrielle: I'm sorry. Based on what you're not telling them, you cannot be trusted.

Star Trek: Discovery Quotes

I am neither one for following orders nor giving them. The solar winds are my mistress and I follow her wherever she beckons.

Mudd

Burnham: Words aren't enough, are they? Nine hundred and thirty years.
Saru: I trust that what matters most will have endured.