Top 100 Lessons On Quotes
#1. I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician.
Travis J. Dahnke
#2. There is a root to every action, which is really a reaction to what is going on inside of us.
Tanya R. Liverman
#3. Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
#4. Fuck the ones who hurt you
Stop thinking about them,
Get on with your own life
They'll eventually come back with apologies
And you'll gladly accept them; as you keep growing with your life.
Nikki Rowe
#5. He's weak, afraid and dumber than your dog.
Besides, you gonna bet the farm on a pig?
The Alien Club
Trel Sidoruk
#6. If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
Oprah Winfrey
#7. Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.
Eloisa James
#8. You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.
Peter Kreeft
#9. We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
Rabindranath Tagore
#10. My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.
Josephine De La Baume
#11. I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.
Thomas Moore
#12. I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it ...
Chico Xavier
#13. I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Ted Dekker
#14. We are like broom. We keep on trying to wipe out emotions from our life but during the course we always remain with it.
Chandan Sharma
#15. We may go up, we may go down, we may do a 360 but still find ourselves here, on safe ground.
Alysha Millet
#16. It's easiest to give advice on trials you've stumbled through. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#17. Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.
Nenia Campbell
#18. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
Jamaica Kincaid
#19. The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.
Fred D'Aguiar
#20. You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.
Steve Harvey
#21. You have become what you are through countless lives and lessons. There is something you can offer others; if only working on your self-discipline, fighting your own baser urges.
Do that then. Do what is offered. Learn and grow as you can.
That in itself is service.
Edward Fahey
#22. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.
Brent Jones
#23. 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
#24. Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
Chandra Wilson
#25. What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.
Dinaw Mengestu
#26. You have to live your life and not count on things being there tomorrow or the next day.
Tere Michaels
#27. No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.
David Hallberg
#28. If only we wait on God's timings, we shall eat of the best fruits from the tree of life in the garden of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. Not everything worth learning is summarized in book. Sometimes you've got to rely on instincts.
Samanthe Beck
#30. I don't always do what I say but if you want to follow my actions, be my guest. You can do what I do and fail, or you can do what I say and move on with your life. It's your choice.
Nicketa Gomes
#31. What is the point of finding the reason as long as you know that you are on the right path? And I have realized lately that the right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. - The Monk (Pg-95)
Shashi
#33. No matter what happens i choose to value the memories of the good times, grow from the lessons of the bad times because i don't regret a single moment of it, every detail made me who i am.
Tilicia Haridat
#34. A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.
Martin Short
#35. Come on, where did you learn to fight? Miss Manners' School for Girls? My baby sister could hit harder than you when she was three years old. Damn, if you're going to turn Daimon, the least you could do is take a few fighting lessons so you can make my boring job more interesting. (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.
Fred D'Aguiar
#37. I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside - that's because it feels kind of romantic and sexier to me. I really think they are the people that we learn lessons from.
Willem Dafoe
#38. Keep on reinventing yourself! Always strive to be a better version of yourself!
Avijeet Das
#39. The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.
Christina Rossetti
#40. It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it.
[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.]
Don Henley
#41. Your gifted purpose here on earth is to live out your days being and bringing your best self...
Bethanee Epifani
#42. Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society ... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children.
Max Meyer
#43. He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"
Joaquin Miller
#44. I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.
Mose Allison
#45. Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
Madonna Ciccone
#46. I don't see many people with longevity anymore. Everything was harder when I started, and you had to take acting lessons, do theater parts, work on connections and then get lucky. The technology is good, but it's also a hindrance for longevity.
Dustin Diamond
#47. Awarness of potential distractions is helpful untill it limits your ability to focus on the task at hand
Kirsten Beyer
#48. Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.
Ken Scott
#49. It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right
especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say ... " They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision ... " They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold ... " But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.
Sheri S. Tepper
#51. I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
Adam Jones
#52. Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.
Cherie Carter-Scott
#53. I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.
Dylan Bruce
#54. When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.
Miranda Cosgrove
#55. Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them ... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have to forget what you feel. And simply remember what you deserve, smile and move on!
Nehali Lalwani
#56. Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. It's best not to experiment on yourself. Bacon practically froze himself to death in one of his experiments and died of pneumonia."
{Right! Bacon must be heated. Knew that already, but thanks for the reminder.}
Kevin Hearne
#58. It's rare to see a man step up and say "I can be a great father and learn about gymnastics with my daughter and take her to dance lessons because I love her." I can make time to blow bubbles on the back porch. It doesn't cause your man card to be revoked.
Dan Alatorre
#59. The best parts of life aren't clear-cut or obvious - they don't have neat endings. I know it's your inclination to skip to the end, but you can't just focus on how it's all gonna turn out.
Anna Breslaw
#60. I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see it. I suppose it is one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn ...
Bram Stoker
#62. I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
Marvin Hamlisch
#64. the ultimate determinant of my life has got nothing to do with neither my past nor my present but my aspirations, my tenacity to dare and to do; to leave a great and an indelible positive footprints on earth
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#65. Let memories of your own hometown flow back to you as you read this fascinating story, "A Place called Gouyave," about the author's recollection of the characters, stories and the lessons learnt in his hometown during his youth on the Caribbean island of Grenada.
Collis Decoteau
#66. I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#67. Until then I had floated at random, like a rootless aquatic plant, relying entirely on the opinions of others.
Soseki Natsume
#68. I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.
Bonnie Raitt
#69. I squeeze my eyes shut as though that will somehow make it go away, but I know it won't. It happened and there's no changing it. No changing any of the things that happen to us. All there is to do is move on. Starting now.
Nyrae Dawn
#70. Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.
Chloe Thurlow
#71. The lessons are in the quest. The answers are found in the journey. These are ripples on a pond. They spread outward. And on we walk ...
Thomas Norman DeWolf
#72. I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don't vibrate on the same frequency there's just no reason for us to waste our time. I'd rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.
Joquesse Eugenia
#73. everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & flowing, reflecting, even tough lessons can help
Jay Woodman
#74. Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.
Criss Jami
#75. Every person on earth learns it's lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.
Valentina
#76. One of the most powerful, though difficult, lessons we all need to learn on our spiritual pilgrimage is that even when bad things happen and we do not understand why, we can trust God to be present and working on our behalf.
Henry Cloud
#77. I always hang up my own dresses. It is a good lesson in appreciation and in always remembering that you're part of a team, not outside of the team, but with the team and on the team.
Stephanie Seymour
#78. Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.
Santosh Kalwar
#79. Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it.
D.B. Harrop
#80. Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.
Alexa Anderson
#81. Follow your dreams, make your best choices, and peace will come as you realize that you are on the best path for yourself.
Camron Wright
#83. Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone ... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things ... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.
Christopher Reeve
#84. We never plant trees in other people's yard and hope them to grow. We plant them in ours, water them and take care of them. We should do the same with our lives. Never lay it on others.
Saru Singhal
#85. This place is in my heart, but it can't be my home, not now, maybe not ever ... - Samuel Yates
Amy Harmon
#86. I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.
Garry Shandling
#87. We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#88. At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.
Robert McNamara
#89. Take care of your people is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?
Eric Greitens
#90. Now, I ain't saying you should only date sane men (I don't want to kill off all the fish in the poluted sea), but at least find one who's willing to fight on his own.
Harvey Fierstein
#92. I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.
Penny Marshall
#94. Education and study, and the favours of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.
Plutarch
#95. One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself.
Johnny Reid
#96. Life is not a recipe. Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. People think they are. They look as if they are. They say, "Do this, not this. Add this, not that." But, really, recipes are just suggestions that got written down.
Mario Batali
#98. God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.
Abhijit Naskar
#99. But then it occured to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him.
Neil Gaiman
#100. MANDELA: a man deemed to be the greatest icon in Africa. his life thought me couple of lessons that always inspires me to strive hard for respect and to make an impact on humanity. may his footsteps continue to live for ever on the sands of time.
Victor Adeagbo
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