Top 100 A Lesson Quotes
#1. It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters ... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.
Jason Mraz
#2. The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.
Simon Heffer
#3. The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.
Gary Player
#4. Whenever I do write a quote,
People say, What a nice thought!
And I say It's not only a thought,
It's a lesson which I have been taught.
Rajendra Singh Solanki
#5. One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
Alan Bennett
#6. But 8 years ago, he found himself unexpectedly falling in love when he was in his 77th year, with Bill Hayes, a younger American writer. He opened himself up to love and he now has someone to share his life with. His life is a lesson that it is never too late to fall in love.
Oliver Jack
#7. A bruise is a lesson, she told herself, and each lesson makes us better.
George R R Martin
#8. I have learned the lesson the hard way and I hope it serves as a lesson to lots of other young people. I would also like to apologise to all loyal Blue Peter viewers.
Richard Bacon
#9. Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.
Henri Lefebvre
#10. Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin's as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You're so afraid to be nice There's no way you're ready To let your defenses down Though I won't come on heavy There is a lesson that I've found.
Harry Chapin
#11. Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
Emile Zola
#12. My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you!
Honore De Balzac
#13. You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
Jennifer Esposito
#14. I don't want to take revenge or teach you a lesson, but you will bear the consequences of your actions by losing me.
Sudeep Nagarkar
#15. when you completely trust a person with all your heart, you either get a friend for life or a lesson for life!
Sudeep Nagarkar
#16. I should be more vocal about the things I believe are doing us harm, but many years ago in my early twenties, I learned a bit of a lesson. I started to realise at that time the benefits of eating healthy food and drink.
Jasper Carrott
#17. I eye the three of them, considering. They'll need a lesson in discretion before I go. Not a lethal lesson. Mom wouldn't like that.
Eliza Crewe
#18. Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.
Steve Fowler
#19. When one hand itches, I scratch it with the other. Let this be a lesson in life.
Mohit Manke
#20. The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.
Ronald Reagan
#21. I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the
users to employ each other the way they employ machines.
Frank Herbert
#22. There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
Victoria Azarenka
#23. If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.
Mary Ruefle
#24. Lip-synching?! Let that be a lesson. If you are in Washington, D.C., and you open your mouth and another voice comes out, it better be the NRA, an oil company or a bank.
Bill Maher
#25. To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.
Fred D'Aguiar
#26. Here's a lesson for you Weapons Master," she said, stalking past him. "Give me real men to fight. Then maybe I'll bother trying.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. Stories carry things. A lesson or moral. Information or a take-home message.
Jonah Berger
#28. Paradox
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1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear a lesson on Jonah and the whale, followed by a sermon on believing in things you can't see without faith.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it.
Amanda Lindhout
#30. My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.
Claudia Black
#31. I remembered what Mr. Hall had told me when I first asked him for a lesson: the kids who watch planes are destined to be pilots.
Jennifer Echols
#32. Sometimes, when we don't learn a lesson in life, it pops up repeatedly until we do. Might this person be giving you an opportunity to learn an unlearned lesson from the past? What lesson(s) might that be?
Liisa Kyle
#33. When we encounter sorrow and betrayal stay present and learn. There is a lesson waiting to unfold, allow yourself to soften into the experience.
Gillian Elizabeth
#34. What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to make the same mistake twice.
George Saunders
#35. Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness.
Rajiv Gandhi
#36. We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are to be taught a lesson in Christianity by the English?
Edward Rutherfurd
#37. Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.
Lauryn Hill
#38. There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.
Oprah Winfrey
#39. But Mr. Success reacted differently when he got knocked down. He bounced up, learned a lesson, forgot the beating, and moved upward.
David J. Schwartz
#41. I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street
Sam Walton
#42. To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
Joe Biden
#43. Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.
Jon Heder
#44. Say "Thanks", because soon or later you must Thank me. It was a lesson... (As from me Thanks for saying thanks!)!
Deyth Banger
#45. Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.
Paula White
#46. You think I tell you stories to teach you lessons? the monster said. You think I have coming walking out of time and earth itself to teach you a lesson in niceness?
Patrick Ness
#47. Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.
Rachilde
#48. Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.
Andrew Matthews
#49. 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.
Carl Sagan
#50. Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson ...
Sigrid Undset
#51. Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I'm interested in.
Zachary Schomburg
#52. Do one of three things.One,go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves.Two,go psycho and start bombing-but this will only swing people to the right.Three,learn a lesson.Go home,organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegatepos
Saul D. Alinsky
#53. There is a lesson that human all need to learn again and again. A lesson of repeat.
Vanessa
#54. People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson
Doug Casey
#55. When you lose, let that be a lesson to you.
When you win - you don't learn anything.
Allan P. Sand
#56. No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.
Peter McWilliams
#57. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.
Kim Coles
#58. If he knew one thing about life, it was this: look out for yourself. No one else would do it for you. If you were cheated or tricked, it was your own fault, and a lesson best learned before the world devoured you.
Kelley Armstrong
#59. I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
Marilyn Monroe
#60. I needed an adult female wearing a tight sleeveless cheongsam mini-dress to help me learn Chinese. All my senses would have to focus; otherwise I would end up knowing nothing. Tracing each Chinese character upon the small of her back with my index finger was only proper way to begin a lesson.
Matt Muller
#61. The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
Catherine Helen Spence
#62. It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
Jennifer Haigh
#64. A mistake is never a mistake unless a lesson is not learned.
S.A. Larsen
#65. People you meet on your journey may not give you direct answers, but listen and observe. Everyone on your path presents a lesson for you.
Sheila Burke
#66. TO THE LADY JESSICA-
May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
My kindest wishes,
MARGOT LADY FENRING
Frank Herbert
#67. When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
#68. Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight.
Anonymous
#69. Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Haruki Murakami
#70. For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be "of good mind," in her phrase, which also meant a people's ability to survive.
Gloria Steinem
#71. Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.
Zig Ziglar
#72. Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!
Livia Bitton-Jackson
#73. Never a failure,always a lesson
Rihanna
#74. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it.
A.J. Darkholme
#75. Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson; the good ones give you memories, the best ones, joy.
Jeffrey Fry
#76. But then, of course, one can peek through the fingers, which is not only pleasurable but a lesson in practical optics.
James J. Gibson
#77. I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.
Clarence Thomas
#78. I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
John Mahoney
#79. Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
Ellen G. White
#80. There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.
Lee L Jampolsky
#81. Sometimes in life there are things to choose.
Even if it means the one you love you lose.
Sometimes it's a lesson you need to know.
That to pass the test the ones you love you let go.
Laqueisha Malone
#82. The Revolution was a lesson in the power of evil to replace idealism, and Bonaparte was its ideal pupil.
Paul Johnson
#83. Girl, you need to learn a lesson about standing in your own light.
Rainbow Rowell
#84. I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#85. The thing is, sometimes, you just have to teach people a lesson. Either that or resort to homicide, and I'd rather not go to jail.
Kylie Scott
#86. A dream is a slippery thing, plucking and bending and toying with our memories, sometimes acting as a bridge between the living, the loved, and the loved no-longer-living, but more often than not acting as a lesson not quite learned.
Scott Wilbanks
#87. I've learned that everything happens for a reason," the yogi Krishnan told him. "Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson ... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.
Robin S. Sharma
#88. I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
Umberto Eco
#89. There is always a lesson to be learned behind every achievement that creates the stability and strength to grow.
Euginia Herlihy
#91. First rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don't talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Second rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don't talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Third rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: if someone taps out, you just keep fighting. Fourth rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: there are no rules. Got it?
Gena Showalter
#92. You have made a mistake, well good, good this shows that you have to learn a lesson... I have also made a mistake, she also has made a mistake, all have made mistake, that's life. That's how everything works!
Deyth Banger
#93. Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
#94. Selene's life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women's equality hasn't always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future.
Stephanie Dray
#95. Love is not always doing what brings pleasure; love is also doing what is good for someone, whatever the cost at the moment. sometimes, it's leaving ... for awhile - and the love is shown, then, in the pain given. For pain is a lesson best learned from the one who loves you the most.
Linda Goodman
#96. Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!
Mireille Mathieu
#97. I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.
Shane Carruth
#98. That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
Bobby Fischer
#100. There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.
LaToya Jackson
