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.

An accurate, though ambiguous, answer [is] taken as confirmation of one’s deepest fears.

Wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

The scale will ONLY tell you the numerical value of your gravitational pull. It will NOT tell you how beautiful you are, how much your friends and family love you, or how amazing you are.

That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it

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.