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.

The truth is, there’s a balance. You are a product of what life, society, and people have done to you. You bear blame for what you did, but others bear a lot of it too. It’s never too late to accept that your past might not be an excuse, but it is a valid explanation.

Getting old sucks, but it's preferable to getting cremated.

Ideals are dead things… unless they have people behind them. Laws exist not for themselves, but for those they serve.

Forgiving someone does not make them right, it makes you free.

What if, in every interaction, our goal was to help others feel better about themselves? No matter how they feel about us, we could leave behind a small ray of light - exactly when they might need it most. Even when were walking through our own darkness, the light we shine on someone elses path often finds its way back to brighten our own.

If we never had the power to do terrible things, then what heroism would it be to resist?

If God puts a Goliath in front of you, He must believe there's a David inside of you.

I accept that there will be those I cannot protect!

Some people charged toward the goal, running for all they had. Others stumbled. But it wasn’t the speed that mattered. It was the direction they were going.

It won’t be like that for me… You told me it would get worse.

It will… but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you… You will be warm again.