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.

If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a ‘Mormon,’ I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any denomination; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints would trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves. It is a love of liberty which inspires my soul—civil and religious liberty to the whole of the human race.

Bad days come to an end

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

A sufficient and sure method of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ted: And I wasted it.
I mean, how many places have I ruined forever by being there with the wrong girl?

Lilly: So come back with the right girl.

Ted: I don't know.
I'm starting to think a person gets a certain allotment of lighthouses per lifetime.
And I've used all mine up.

Ted the Narrator: And that, kids, is the kind of stupid thing you say before you've met the person who hits the reset button on the world, who makes everything new again, who makes it seem ridiculous that you ever considered settling...