Top 100 Quotes About Important Lessons
#1. One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.
Georges St-Pierre
#2. One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
Mike Love
#3. In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. Every good rowing coach, in his own way, imparts to his men the kind of self-discipline required to achieve the ultimate from mind, heart, and body. Which is why most ex-oarsmen will tell you they learned more fundamentally important lessons in the racing shell than in the classroom.
Daniel James Brown
#5. 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
#6. One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
Patrick Collison
#7. Our old barn taught me one of the most important lessons I was ever to learn: that the extraordinary can live in the simplest things" -Annabelle
Lauren Wolk
#8. I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.
Marc Singer
#9. My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
Roger Moore
#10. Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.
Anna Quindlen
#11. This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
Eric Ries
#12. Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.
Chriswell Freeman
#13. raddest bunch ever. Andrew Horn - for being my rock and my light, and for teaching me the important lessons of
Miki Agrawal
#14. To successfully tell the story, we had to be willing to let people see us as we really were; with all our weaknesses, fears, and imperfections. There are important lessons we learned from the experience that we would not have adequately relayed to the reader if we had been less bold." ~ Duane
Duane & Selena Pannell
#15. We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.
Eckhart Tolle
#16. Remember that to yourself, you are and always will be the strongest element in your environment. That's why any job, right or wrong, will teach you important lessons about yourself. The truth is that personal development is the real reason you should be working in the first place.
Barbara Sher
#17. The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs.
Hans-Peter Lindstrom
#18. One of the most important lessons I've recently learned? I have to move forward without that apology. Waiting on it has bound me to an anchor that is pulling me under. What would make the other person apologize for hurting me when they're far too selfish to notice they have?
Paula Heller Garland
#19. Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
Warren G. Bennis
#20. It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
Warren Christopher
#21. Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
#22. Esther was uncommon not because she was sick but because she was Esther, and she did not exist so that the rest of us could learn Important Lessons about Life.The meaning of her life-likethe meaning of any life- is a maddeningly ambiguous question shrouded in uncertainty
John Green
#23. Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.
Clarence Darrow
#24. It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.
Paul A. Lombardo
#25. Contour, negative space, and measurements. You just learned the three important lessons in drawing and saved yourself four years of art school.
Danny Gregory
#26. One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you.
Stuart Hill
#27. Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.
Tinker Hatfield
#28. It is better to learn two important lessons in life than a thousand when you are about to die.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'
Jesse McCartney
#30. I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.
Ed McMahon
#31. Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.
Debbie Ford
#32. All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.
Joss Whedon
#33. It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.
Pat Cash
#34. Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.
Edgar H Schein
#35. There were two important lessons I learned from Dad's 1964 campaign, though they didn't sink in until many years later: 1) Things always look darkest just before it goes completely black 2) Somewhere when God shuts a door, he shuts a window too. And then you're totally fucked.
Stephanie Miller
#36. The three most important lessons I have learned in my life: First, no-thing is more valuable or important in life than being loved and loving others. Second, the lessons in life never end and it's up to us whether or not we learn from them. Third, life goes on ...
James A. Murphy
#37. Let us look at our own shortcomings and leave other people's alone; for those who live carefully ordered lives are apt to be shocked at everything and we might well learn very important lessons from the persons who shock us. Our
Teresa Of Avila
#38. I was starting to learn one of the most important lessons of online dating: the wisdom of saying no.
Sarah Hepola
#39. My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.
Joy Bryant
#40. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#41. It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.
James Nachtwey
#42. I think one of the most important lessons that I've learned is to put your head down and work. Don't look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you're constantly working on it.
Tika Sumpter
#43. Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
Anne Michaels
#44. The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
Daniel H. Pink
#45. One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.
Gretchen Rubin
#46. Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy.
Caitlin Moran
#47. Life's most important lessons are not found in the lesson plans.
Tamara L. Chilver
#48. Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons
Joseph Boyden
#49. Second chances are not that important. What's important, is being ready when the first chance
is given.
Jay Long
#50. Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
#51. I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.
Charlie Gonzalez
#52. No.'
It's not a bad word.
And it is very important to use at times.
Practice saying it in the mirror.
It's empowering.
Christy Hall
#53. It's important to be grateful for the gifts we have
Sarah Weeks
#54. All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.
Glenn Ficarra
#55. The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#56. Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference.
Steven J. Carroll
#57. Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#58. Our most important duty in life is to love. Our most important success in life is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#59. We all make assumptions
every day. Some more important than others. Some more damaging
than others. And things, very often, are not at all what they seem.
B.B. Shepherd
#60. You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.
Terry Pratchett
#61. Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#62. I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
Nancy Kerrigan
#63. I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
Veronica Roth
#65. When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.
Peter Senge
#66. When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.
C.S. Lewis
#67. Failure teaches us the most important life lesson; it's how we find our true character.
J.C. Phillips
#68. It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.
Marquis De Lafayette
#69. Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#70. You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#72. Tell your children the most important things To Be when they grow up, is to be kind and compassionate, to be loving and grateful, and to be happy and at peace with who they are, no matter of what they chose to do when they grow up.
Martin Suarez
#73. The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn.
Derek Sivers
#74. The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.
Alex Lifeson
#75. ALWAYS BE HAPPY IS NOT IMPORTANT , WHAT IMPORTANT IS TO FIGHT THE STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES US HAPPY OR UNHAPPY !!
Tushar Upreti
#76. Lessons can be learned from each and every movie in the series. Like take this lasting and most important lesson from Return of the Jedi: If you ever have the option, always, always wear a gold bikini. Trust me, I know, I've done it once or twice.
Olivia Munn
#77. Most important are the lessons of being humble, being a giver, and generally being a loving and caring person for people. That is something that I am trying to instill in my kids and all the kids around the world.
Raheem Devaughn
#78. It's more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer.
Edward Shirley
#79. The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!
Shannon L. Alder
#80. Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.
Peter Hoeg
#81. It is important to understand the objective of every race. Sometimes it is important to win. Sometimes it is more than enough if you just complete the race.
Abhishek Ratna
#82. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
#83. We do wrong. It's not bad but making mistakes if we don't realize it that's called bad or the baddest of all ... what we learn from our mistakes that's important ...
Debolina Bhawal
#84. There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish ... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.
Gouverneur Morris
#85. One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.
Mario Batali
#86. I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#87. Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want?
Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart.
The important things.
Ana Castillo
#88. You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#89. Positive ones go on the wall, negative on the floor over there. He points to this heap of paper. It's important to get those down but they don't need to stick around after you do
Jennifer Niven
#90. The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#91. I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice.
Delta Goodrem
#92. True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.
Tony Williams
#93. My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#94. The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
Russell Crowe
#95. But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.
Sarah Dessen
#97. The things you spend so much time on
all this work you do
might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.
Mitch Albom
#98. I've found that one of the most important things in life is to learn how to forgive yourself.
Sai Marie Johnson
#99. is the God that showed him wondrous stories and lessons. The primary lesson for George was that love is the only important work in this world. Love people, nature, animals, and creation itself - and to show compassion and generosity.
John Graden
#100. You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all.
Thomas Angelo
