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

We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.

Russell M. Nelson

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  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Numbers
  • Coming

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

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  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Personality

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bad
  • Future
  • Past

• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Song

• I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Week

• And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Green

• I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Death
  • Musicians

• The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Long
  • Country
  • House

• Fear created the first gods in the world.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • World
  • Fear
  • First

• India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Team
  • Positive

• suggest that we think of theories as spotlight. this imagery is useful. a spotlight will only illuminate so much. wiht any theory there will always be the things that are left in darkness, still unexamined and unexplained. parsons referred to these as'residual categories'.

  

  Talcott Parsons

• I fear my ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• When I was playing with the Truckers, a lot of really good things happened. And we had a good trajectory for a long time. For that kind of a band, for the kind of music that I've always made, we had a lot of success, I think.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Running
  • Impossible
  • Strive

• I travel a lot.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Travel

• The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Strong
  • Poverty
  • Weak

• We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Strong
  • Wish
  • Integrity