Biggest Lesson Quotes

#1. The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

Cindy Gallop

#2. The biggest lesson I've learned ... was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

Eddie Rickenbacker

#3. Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

Lisa Ling

#4. Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.

Andrew Luck

#5. The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

Josef Koudelka

#6. The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

Andrew Shue

#7. The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.

David Karp

#8. Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

Greg Lake

#9. The biggest lesson I've learned is, "It's okay." It's okay for me to be kind to myself. It's okay to be wrong. It's okay to get mad. It's okay to be flawed. It's okay to be happy. It's okay to move on.

Hayley Williams

#10. The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

J. William Fulbright

#11. You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Max Levchin

#12. Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life ... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.

Ashton Kutcher

#13. Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Bristol Palin

#14. I think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work ethic. Working with Jim Cameron, you're used to working very, very long days and you're very meticulous about details. He's very, very picky about little details, little character-isms and things.

Laz Alonso

#15. It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

Kid Cudi

#16. The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.

Nandita Das

#17. I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

Giles Duley

#18. Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

Sinead O'Connor

#19. The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

Jon Taffer

#20. The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

Michael Kors

#21. I think the biggest lesson that I've learned is that no one owes you anything. It doesn't matter if you've worked with this person, or you have a piece of work that you think is great. It doesn't mean they're going to agree with you and give you money to do it.

Reagan Gomez-Preston

#22. The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.

Tony Hawk

#23. Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Chet Faker

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

Hidetoshi Nakata

#25. Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#26. My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

Kristian Bush

#27. Showing charity towards others is the biggest lesson we can
teach our children to guide them in their future on this planet.

Simin Hashemizadeh

#28. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Goldie Hawn

#29. I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

Sean McDonough

#30. The biggest lesson was that if you were clear about what you wanted as leaders and then let people give it to you without tying their hands behind their backs, you got it.

Carmine Gallo

#31. I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

Goldie Hawn

#32. To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

Stacy Keibler

#33. I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists - there are these messages in society that if you aren't hitting certain metrics, then you're not successful and you're not valid.

Lela Loren

#34. Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

Martin O'Malley

#35. I'd done my practicum in one of the city's biggest shelters, witnessing the kinds of trauma no human would survive. The one lesson in all that? Animals feel. They're just as sensitive as we are, maybe more.

Clea Simon

#36. My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

Dash Mihok

#37. You made me see that friendship is a farce and trusting anyone other than myself is the biggest mistake I could make. It was a lesson I had been learning my whole life up until that point. But you tattooed it on my soul in a way I could never forget.

Aly Martinez

#38. The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Bear Grylls

#39. I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

Chris Wyse

#40. Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.

Theophilus London

#41. One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Romany Malco

#42. It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#43. The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

Tony Hsieh

#44. My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

Jake T. Austin

#45. My biggest mistake was my best lesson ... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

Olivia Newton-John

#46. Some flowers bloom beneath the biggest blue,
while others prefer the shade;
As is Human Nature ...
Some turn their faces to the sun
while others seek solitude.
But no matter where you wish to stand;
Stand Straight and Stand tall.

Michelle Geaney

#47. That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.

David O. Russell

#48. The biggest, most enduring lesson of school is that learning is work, to be avoided when possible.

Peter Gray

#49. When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Bros. until he was exposed as gay, and his career faded. That was an object lesson. I knew I must protect my sexual orientation.

George Takei