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.


Anyone can change the world… But to change it for the better—that’s always the challenge.


It’s not a failure… It’s just the simple fact that until you think of a thing, you haven’t thought of it yet.


power is worthless without boundaries and the self-control to respect them


Respect is always a pretense… It begins as a game of pretending, and then as the players come to know each other, it can turn into real respect, or it can remain pretense forever, because nobody is worthy of it.


brave and foolish are very near to being synonyms