Lessons Quotes

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

The world sees you for what you are, but the universe sees you for what you can be.

When a storm shows up, always remind yourself a rainbow is hiding behind it.

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.

Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.

The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

The sweeter the fruit a tree bears the greater the number of birds that eat from it.

A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper.

A virtuous spouse adds years to your life, a wise one adds decades, but a loving one adds an eternity to your life.

The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.

The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life’s winds blow against you.

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I’m ready for you. Dear future, I’m coming for you.

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.

Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

Don’t climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.

A lion does not earn its crown quarreling with sheep.

The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky.

Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.

If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

If you have a dream no one else can see, a reward awaits you that no one else can have.

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble.

The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.

Life is nothing more than a contradiction.

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

When life’s journey is wearisome, put on hope’s shoes.

Words let you know what is in someone’s mind, deeds let you know what is in someone’s heart, and character lets you know what is in someone’s soul.

If your present thoughts do not lift you higher than your previous ones, rid yourself of them.

True riches belong to those who shun false ones.

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.

Seeds, not doubting their potential, rise and become forests.

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.

Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.

In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond.

Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.

Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.

Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence.

Don’t miss the opportunity to fly with eagles tomorrow because chickens invited you to run with them today.

A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.