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

With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

Russell M. Nelson

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• I have never believed in the impossible.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Never
  • Impossible
  • Believed

• I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

  

  Patrick White
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Air

• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Wish
  • Speak
  • Chinese

• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Person
  • Impossible

• You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • You
  • Impossible

• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Day
  • Impossible

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Impossible
  • Divorce
  • Islam

• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Impossible
  • Diversity

• The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

  

  Ze Frank
  • World
  • Live
  • Star

• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Successful
  • Face
  • Adversity

• Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Impossible

• The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Impossible
  • Texas
  • Insanity

• How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Kind
  • Adversity

• Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

  

  Judy Davis
  • Mind
  • Directors
  • Killers

• If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Years
  • Firsts
  • Students

• It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.

  

  Harry Markowitz
  • Market
  • Las Vegas
  • Crapshoot

• The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Faith

• With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Impossible
  • Adversity
  • Endure