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 future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have-made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.