Hard Lesson To Learn Quotes

#1. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Terry Pratchett

#2. It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

Kristin Cashore

#3. A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

Bruce Catton

#5. It's not all peeling grapes, being a handmaiden," said Ptraci. "The first lesson we learn is, when the master has had a long hard day it is not the best time to suggest the Congress of the Fox and the Persimmon. Who says you have to do anything?

Terry Pratchett

#6. Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top ... (as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad ... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor)

Florie Jo Alicer

#7. He'd pushed and pushed and pushed until she had nowhere else to go but away from him. He'd been young back then himself. Inexperienced. Stupid. A little patience accomplished a lot more. Hard lesson to learn. Worst way to learn it.

Erin Kellison

#8. He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold. "But," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

Napoleon Hill

#9. The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#10. I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

Eva Longoria

#11. This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

John Irving

#12. Fate was the only lesson a god needed to learn. It was their only hard limit.

Kendare Blake

#13. It's easy to teach, give lesson to other, passing comments, but hard to learn when it comes to yourself.

Nutan Bajracharya

#14. You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself ... There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

Stephen Colbert

#15. I'll admit, I was disappointed to learn that dragons didn't exist. That's a hard lesson for a boy to learn.

Patrick Rothfuss

#16. My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

William Shakespeare

#17. Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.

Guy Kawasaki

#18. It was a hard lesson to learn, but eventually I had to come to grips with the fact that I cannot solve everyone's problems and lead them to a happy, fulfilled life. They have to figure that out on their own.

Theo Rossi

#19. ...with this swing set your child will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely and may also learn the most important lesson of all:No matter how hard you kick,no matter how high you get , you can't get all the way around

John Green

#20. It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

Mike Rogers

#21. It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.

Na'ama Yehuda