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.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult, you may be given a cactus but you don’t have to sit on it!

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

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.

Talent might make you good, but it’s your attitude and work-ethic that will make you great.

Colorblindness really should mean, at its deepest level, is that we try our very best to treat people without regard to race, both in our personal lives and in our public policy.

Perhaps the best evidence of true conversion is the disposition to do evil no more.

The word queue is ironic.
It's just a 'q' with a bunch of silent letters waiting in a line.

It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

Remember, your life was designed just for you.