Lessons Quotes

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

No matter how deep you bury good seeds, they always find a way to rise.

The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm, the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.

The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.

Sometimes the only way to gain someone's favor is to stop giving them yours.

Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech.

If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.

We are filled vessels that gets to choose what we pour back into the world, and what we choose to share defines who we are.

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe.

Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them.

Yesterday says, “Forget me, but learn from me.” Today says, “Embrace me, yet utilize me.”Tomorrow says, “Anticipate me, then prepare for me.

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends.

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.

Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.

No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.

The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.

If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.

Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.

If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.

Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.

You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.

One who protects himself from negative thoughts protects himself from negative outcomes.

The greatest universe is not somewhere out there, but inside of yourself.

The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.

Follow your dreams with all of your mind. Chase your dreams with all of your heart. Accomplish your dreams with all of your soul.

Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.

If you have the power to think, you have the power to change your world.

As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.

Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.

One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.

The greatest gift life can give you today is the promise of tomorrow.

Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none.

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

The poorest man you can marry is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks character.

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs.