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.

The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.

You don't have to understand people's experiences to be kind. Kindness doesn't require logic, it requires grace.

An umbrella cannot stop the rain but it allows us to stand in the rain. Faith in God may not remove our trials but it gives us strength to overcome them.

There are two kinds of important men... There are those who, when the boulder of time rolls toward them, stand up in front of it and hold out their hands. All their lives, they’ve been told how great they are. They assume the world itself will bend to their whims as their nurse did when fetching them a fresh cup of milk.
Those men end up squished.
Other men stand to the side when the boulder of time passes, but are quick to say, ‘See what I did! I made the boulder roll there. Don’t make me do it again!’
These men end up getting everyone else squished.”
Is there not a third type of person?”
There is, but they are oh so rare. These know they can’t stop the boulder. So they walk beside it, study it, and bide their time. Then they shove it—ever so slightly—to create a deviation in its path.

You should never debate an idiot... No more than you’d use your best sword to spread butter.

The first to apologise is the bravest.
The first to forgive is the strongest.
The first to forget is the happiest.

But the Lord uses a scale very different from the world’s to weigh the worth of a soul.

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.