Life Lessons Learned Hard Way Quotes

#1. All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Joan Didion

#2. I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Amy Adams

#3. I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

Todd Barry

#4. 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

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

Claudia Gray

#6. I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

Jeremy Renner

#7. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born.

Jack Canfield

#8. Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Elegance is innate ... individual ... eternal ... it stands the test of time!

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#14. Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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

Nicole Lyons

#16. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both,

Mark Twain

#17. If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

Octave Chanute