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.

Whenever I see someone with an abundance of empathy I want to ask what heartbreak they have endured, for compassion is often birthed in the valley of despair.

If you go to the southwest desert and catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen.
However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other.
The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar.
This is exactly what's happening in society today:
Liberal vs Conservative
Black vs White
Pro Mask vs Anti Mask
The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who's shaking the jar and why?

At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Clients do not come first, employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

On the days you only have 40%, and you give 40%. You gave 100%.

Unfair is a feature, not a bug.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor & move on.

Don't get lazy now, remember the days you were desperate to be where you're currently at.