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.

Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.

Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.

The soldier’s way. Deal with today’s problems, then sleep and deal with tomorrow’s problems tomorrow.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.

Love… is like a pile of chull dung… for even as we try to avoid both, we end up stepping in them anyway.

Beauty was out there, all around. To create art was not to capture it, but to participate in it.

I ain’t grouchy… I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

Expectation wasn’t just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

[The] purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.