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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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  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

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

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

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • 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

• Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Head
  • Pocket
  • Favorable

• 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

• It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.

  

  Marcus Allen
  • Game
  • Amazing

• I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light to thee.

  

  Ellen Sturgis Hooper
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Dream

• I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up
  • Weird

• We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.

  

  Bunker Roy

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• 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