Lesson Quotes

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.

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Believe in love at first sight.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

Celebrate even small victories.

Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way.

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

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.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.

I'm interested in impacting people with life lessons that they can pass on. A touchdown is only remembered for one Sunday, but a lesson that can be passed on to your kids is Paramount.

You can successfully take a jab at your ex without having everyone criticize you for it.

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.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

What gets measured gets improved.

To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible.

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.

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.