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.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept.

Service is how you increase your capacity to love.

Like Lehi… you don’t chase after your loved ones who feel lost. You stay where you are and call them. You go to the tree, stay at the tree, keep eating the fruit and, with a smile on your face, continue to beckon to those you love and show by example that eating the fruit is a happy thing!

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

The three legs of the agreement-tripod are desire, data and doubt. Accuracy and honesty have little to do with it… Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses, it always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

An accurate, though ambiguous, answer [is] taken as confirmation of one’s deepest fears.

Wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

The scale will ONLY tell you the numerical value of your gravitational pull. It will NOT tell you how beautiful you are, how much your friends and family love you, or how amazing you are.