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.

Live as if there’s no worry, until life gives you something to worry about

Be one who nurtures and who builds. Be one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart, who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Would you consider this idea for a moment—that the way we treat the members of our families, our friends, those with whom we work each day is as important as are some of the more noticeable gospel principles we sometimes emphasize.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

If satan can talk angels out of heaven, he can talk you into hell. Be careful what voices you listen to.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

A fact is information minus emotion. An opinion is information plus experience. Ignorance is an opinion lacking information. And stupidity is an opinion that ignores a fact.

There has now been created a world in which the success of others is a grievance, rather than an example.

The only one ever qualified to throw a stone didn't.