Quotes

One of the fondest memories of my Granddad Nelson was trading quotes regularly over email. Sadly I lost the email archive when I went on my mission, but it has continued to be an interest of mine. I hope you enjoy my collection of quotes. A bit of everything from religion to politics to leadership.

One of the hardest things to do as a parent is to let your kids fail. But the truth is that, unless you let them fail, they never learn to succeed. They achieve a sort of helplessness in which they learn to wait for someone to come in and solve their problems.

It's very difficult to watch your children struggle, but letting them fail may be the most important thing you can do.

People need to stop treating marriage as a mechanism of personal fulfillment. That is not actually what marriage is supposed to be. The purpose of marriage is to create a stable environment to start a family and raise children.

Kids are difficult. Kids are time-consuming. They're energy-consuming. They make mistakes. They annoy you. They're also the most wonderful thing that will ever happen to you.

Fathers provide a sense of security to their children, but they also model behavior. For boys, fathers model and teach how to be a protector; for girls, fathers model and teach how men ought to protect them.

If you want to make a lot of money in this life, you have to do three things. Find the thing that you like to do, the thing that people are willing to pay you for, and the thing that you are good at. If you find those three things, you will end up making a lot of money.

Happiness is the pursuit of purpose in our lives.

A big mistake people often make about religion is if they fall short of the moral standards defined by faith, they fault the standards. We all sin, myself included. That does not mean that God is wrong. It means I was wrong.

The American dream is the idea that you are not a victim. No matter how terrible your history, no matter how much you were a victim in the past, you can still rise.