Hard Lessons Learned Quotes

#1. He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.

Helen Hodgman

#2. Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

#3. To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.

Julius Caesar

#4. Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

Maya Banks

#5. Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

John Piper

#6. In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

Kevin Smith

#7. Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Les Brown

#8. The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.

Lin Yutang

#9. A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way ... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on ... unless of course you prefer sand.

K.E. Garvey

#10. One of the hard lessons Leia had learned during the Rebellion was this: Any single life was expendable, including her own.

Claudia Gray

#11. 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

#12. Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come ... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Audrey Hepburn

#13. Being single is hard, and it gets harder and harder every day. But sooner or later you'll be happy, independent, wise, strong and everything. Because you've learned lessons in a better way. In a harder way.

Sarvesh Jain

#14. My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts.

Anne Bronte

#15. Sometimes the best lessons learned are those that are learned the hard way

Teresa Keefer

#16. One Life is about realizing there's no second chances in this one life that we were given to live. So we need to be thankful for all we have. Work hard for what we want and love one another no matter the difference.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#17. Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

Loretta Lynn

#18. It suits here now to forget last year, but she'll never make me forget last year, not if I live to be a hundred. I didn't know much then. I know now that there's people like her who want to be friendly for what you do, not what you are.

K.M. Peyton

#19. I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

Rick Scott

#20. Hard lessons were handed out. As many men learned to their sorrow, it's impossible to be intimidating when one angry woman has your cock between her teeth and another is holding a stiletto to your kidneys.

Scott Lynch

#21. I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time.
Lia

Jodi Picoult

#22. without the aid of alcohol. "There are no parties to attend," he

Kristin Hannah

#23. I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. Ana never saw the rotten apples littering the ground as she continually reached for the rare golden apple on the tree. Ana had stepped in a lot of rotten apples in her lifetime. She should have learned by now.

Travis Luedke

#25. am not a well-schooled woman. Instead, I have learned my lessons from experience, mistakes, and the heat of battle. If ever there was a shining alumnus from the school of hard knocks, it is I. My diploma can be found, printed in black and blue, at points of varying interest from head to toe.

Chris Kreski

#26. And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.

Nicole Lyons

#27. I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#28. It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

Lindsay Lohan

#29. Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Don Williams

#30. If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

Vijay Singh

#31. The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

Georg Solti