David Nicholls Quotes

I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

The way to good conduct is never too late.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life.

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim. The reality check comes when Christlike attributes need to become visible in our lives—as husband or wife, as father or mother, as son or daughter, in our friendships, in our employment, in our business, and in our recreation. We can recognize our growth, as can those around us, as we gradually increase our capacity to 'act in all holiness before [Him]' (D&C 43:9).