Life Lesson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
-- Adam Sandler -
Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
-- Anais Nin -
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
-- Anna Quindlen -
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
-- Anne Bancroft -
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
-- Antisthenes -
The Wayshower is a compelling, multi-layered and complex spiritual journey about a guilt-ridden man searching to understand his connection to his guru J-R. Followers of the real-life guru, John-Roger, as well as a segment of new-thought seekers, will resonate with the messages and life lessons shared throughout.
-- Arielle Ford -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
All life is a pattern... but we can not always see the pattern when we are part of it.
-- Belva Plain -
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
-- Ben Harper -
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.
-- Billie Jean King -
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
-- Billie Jean King -
We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
-- Bob Ehrlich -
One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
-- Bob Richards -
I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.
-- Boomer Esiason -
Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.
-- Brad Paisley -
You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.
-- Brandi Carlile -
Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.
-- Brett Favre -
Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.
-- Brian Weiss -
I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.
-- Brother Ali -
Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.
-- Charles R. Schwab -
I didn't understand at the time why Vince was so interested in teaching me life lessons when all I was trying to do was get my video played. But now I think it's because he saw a little bit of himself in me. Just like me, he was a rebel who listened to no one and did whatever it took to get the job done, pissing people off with his stubbornness and drive in the process. Therefore, he was trying to teach me how to better myself instead of repeatedly getting into trouble by rubbing people the wrong way.
-- Chris Jericho -
I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.
-- Christine Taylor -
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
-- Dan Rather -
Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
-- Dar Williams -
Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities. Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought. Read this book.
-- David F. Swensen -
Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.
-- David James -
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay -
Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.
-- David Richo -
The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.
-- Debbi Fields -
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
-- Denis Waitley -
I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.
-- Diana Nyad -
To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik -
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
-- Edward Bach -
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.
-- Elizabeth Scott -
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
-- Frank Sinatra -
Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.
-- Gay Hendricks -
My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
-- Gillian Anderson -
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
-- Haruki Murakami -
In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.
-- Haruki Murakami -
I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.
-- Helen Mirren -
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
-- Henry L. Stimson -
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
-- Henry Rollins -
I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.
-- Herb Kelleher -
My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'
-- Hilary Duff -
I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy with who I am, and I'm happy with the way people portray me. If it's too normal, than that's their opinion.
-- Hilary Duff -
I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.
-- Hilary Duff -
I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.
-- Hilary Duff -
It's not attractive when girls get super skinny. Guys don't like it. Gils don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.
-- Hilary Duff -
I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women - it's a lot. And when it comes to being a mom, I wish everyone could band together and realize that everyone has different beliefs, different styles, and different things that work them and their family.
-- Hilary Duff -
At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.
-- Hilary Duff -
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?
-- Jan Hellriegel -
As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.
-- Jennie Finch -
Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.
-- Jens Jensen -
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
-- Jessica Lange -
I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
-- Jessye Norman -
Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.
-- Joe Bastianich -
I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.
-- Joe Mantegna -
Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
-- John F. Kennedy -
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
-- John McEnroe -
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
-- Johnny Mathis -
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
-- Jose Marti -
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
-- Judy Collins -
Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
-- Katherine Mansfield -
I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.
-- Kevin Ollie -
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
-- Kimberly Caldwell -
The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.
-- Kip Winger -
You're not going to live your life unscathed.
-- Kirstie Alley -
There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.
-- Kris Carr -
An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.
-- Kristi Yamaguchi -
Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.
-- L. Tom Perry -
When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
-- Lech Walesa -
When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free.
-- Lenore Terr -
The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.
-- Liam Payne -
A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.
-- Loretta Devine -
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.
-- Madam C. J. Walker -
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
-- Mandy Moore -
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
-- Mark Hoppus -
Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.
-- Mark Lawrence -
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
-- Mark Twain -
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
-- Mark Twain -
To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.
-- Martin Dugard
