Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Russell M. Nelson

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• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

  

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• The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

  

  Lou Holtz
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• Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

  

  Jasper Fforde
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• Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

  

  Aristotle
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• Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

  

  Aristotle
  • War
  • Peace
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• A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• A vocation is the backbone of life.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Vocation
  • Backbone

• The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Exercise
  • Quitting
  • Vocation

• The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Silence
  • Humility
  • Statement

• Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • More
  • Making
  • Vocation

• It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Members
  • Honorable
  • Shakes

• Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise

  

  Sadie Robertson
  • True
  • Thoughts
  • Right

• My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • Composition
  • Vocation

• May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

  

  George Washington
  • God
  • Father
  • Path

• I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Choices
  • Brave

• We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • World
  • Realizing
  • Vocation

• Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Occupation
  • Human Race

• It was in that semifloating state--that transition between the blissful suspension of awareness and the depths of total unconsciousness--that I first encountered the transparent weave of creature voices not only as a choir but as a cohesive sonic event. No longer a cacophony, it became a partitioned collection of vocal organisms--a highly orchestrated acoustic arrangement of insects, spotted hyenas, eagle-owls, African wood-owls, elephants, tree hyrax, distant lions, and several knots of tree frogs and toads. Every distinct voice seemed to fit within its own acoustic bandwidth.

  

  Bernie Krause
  • Creature
  • Voices
  • Transition

• Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • People
  • Long
  • German

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors.

  

  Alice Borchardt
  • Desire
  • Weapon
  • Arrayed

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Vocation
  • Honorable