Top 100 Teach Lesson Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.
Robin Sharma
#3. Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
J.G. Ballard
#4. Girls, we're fiction editors
we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget.
Stephanie Bond
#5. I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.
Goldie Hawn
#6. Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stephen King
#7. Emery's eyes sparkled with amusement. Had she done something funny?
"I've determined that I will teach you to cheat at cards for the day's first lesson," Emery announced.
Ceony dropped her scissors. "I knew you were cheating!
Charlie N. Holmberg
#8. It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation.
Narendra Modi
#9. I've always been attracted to jerks. They range from sassy weirdos who are ultimately pretty good guys to sociopathic sex addicts, but the common denominator is a bad attitude upon first meeting and a desire to teach me a lesson.
Lena Dunham
#10. Love everyone. Good people create an impression and not so good people teach you a lesson.
Debasish Mridha
#11. And come to think of it, maybe this is the most important lesson the school could teach them about the American workplace: how to sit calmly at your desk and surf the internet and not go insane.
Nathan Hill
#12. A master can teach many things. But the most important lesson for a ninja is to learn oneself.
Jarius Raphel
#13. Sometimes we forget the most basic things, since it has been too long since we learned them. I realized I had done the same with my own lesson plan. You do not teach students to throw until you have taught them to fall. And I must not teach you to fight if you do not understand how to lose.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#14. Everyone you meet is an aspect of the gods and has a lesson to teach you.
Thomm Quackenbush
#15. Not every person you meet in life will become a close friend or lover. Some you will find hard to get along with or impossible to like. But these people, too, teach you the precious lesson of who you do like, so that you will appreciate those special people even more.
Marie Kondo
#16. Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.
Jens Jensen
#17. And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson
It's times like this that make you
Macklemore
#18. And that's what we're going to teach you how to do." Well, wasn't that a lesson he was goddamn aching to learn. Jim
J.R. Ward
#19. The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.
Peace Pilgrim
#20. No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
Cyril Connolly
#21. Reading the Fillory books you would think that all one has to do is behave honorably and bravely and all will be well. What a lesson to teach young children. What a way to prepare them for the rest of their lives.
Lev Grossman
#22. When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.
Cecilia Bartoli
#23. It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. When our responses turn into reactions and we set out to teach people a lesson, we lose. We lose because the act of teaching someone a lesson rarely succeeds at changing them, and always fails at making our day better, or our work more useful.
Seth Godin
#25. It is the same with people. Not every person you meet in life will become a close friend or lover. Some you will find hard to get along with or impossible to like. But these people, too, teach you the precious lesson of who you do like, so that you will appreciate those.
Marie Kondo
#26. I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#27. My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.
Ernest J. Gaines
#28. All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night.
Leon Brown
#29. It's easy to teach, give lesson to other, passing comments, but hard to learn when it comes to yourself.
Nutan Bajracharya
#30. I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.
Kevin Ollie
#31. A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
James Surowiecki
#32. I reckon it is up to us to treat each other better than the Lord do, and teach Him a lesson.
G.B. Edwards
#33. Other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours
Melody Beattie
#34. Reagan's Drugs Czar, Carlton Turner, said that kids deserved to die as a punishment for smoking poisoned weed, to teach them a lesson. Two years later, he called for the death penalty for all drug users. On
Shaun Attwood
#35. It's not the successes in life that teach us a lesson, it's the mistakes we made to get there that truly teach us.
Steven Aitchison
#36. I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
Henry Miller
#37. I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.
Clarence Thomas
#38. I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.
Michael Ian Black
#39. Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.
Stephen King
#40. The thing is, sometimes, you just have to teach people a lesson. Either that or resort to homicide, and I'd rather not go to jail.
Kylie Scott
#41. Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Haruki Murakami
#42. I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.
Shane Carruth
#43. Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!
Richard Baxter
#44. In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
Richard Corliss
#45. Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to
Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson.
Cat.
George R R Martin
#46. First rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don't talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Second rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don't talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Third rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: if someone taps out, you just keep fighting. Fourth rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: there are no rules. Got it?
Gena Showalter
#47. Travis punched his palm. "Do you want me to go beat the piss out of Finch? Teach him a lesson? I'll take him out."
I couldn't help but smile. "If I wanted to take Finch out, I'd just tell him Prada went out of business, and he'd finish the job for me.
Jamie McGuire
#48. I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own.
Nikki Rowe
#49. He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
Philip Roth
#50. The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson.
Suzanne Shaw
#51. It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.
David Finkel
#52. People don't remember lessons. They remember stories.
Kamand Kojouri
#53. One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one."
"Always?" I ask.
"Always!" she confirms. "Good stories teach!
Camron Wright
#54. When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is the purpose of life. Incongruously, its value lies in having imparted that lesson.
Bhanggi
Faiqa Mansab
#55. Don't leave music in the lone territory of the music teacher; make it a part of your instruction. In the words of Bob Marley, "Music gonna teach dem a lesson.
Sheryl G. Feinstein
#57. I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal.
Paul Murray
#58. The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.
Juliet Marillier
#59. some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget!
Leslie Feinberg
#60. The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.
John Updike
#61. The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
Audre Lorde
#62. If I ever teach writing again, I'd say the first lesson is to listen.
Horton Foote
#63. Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
Edwin Meese
#64. I try to show the children how every lesson I teach them is going to be something they use in their real life. That's why my kids work so hard, not because I'm so cool. They're working for themselves.
Rafe Esquith
#65. If I could only teach you one thing about the world, it would be to Appreciate and be as present as possible in every moment. Take everything in and try and learn from it. No matter how tangled things get, there is always a lesson to be learned in the untangling of those things.
Bethany Brookbank
#66. Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#67. If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
Yanis Varoufakis
#68. The debacle of European pacifism has at least one clear lesson to teach us: pacifists, if they are to be effective in the modern world, must be as wholehearted and as brave as Gandhi.
Freeman Dyson
#69. If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?
Robert A. Heinlein
#70. And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.
George Pattison
#71. Avoid outshining the master. All superiority is odious, but the superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal. This is a lesson that the stars in the sky teach us - they may be related to the sun, and just as brilliant, but they never appear in her company.
Baltasar Gracian
#72. You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.
Bryant McGill
#73. The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
Florence Nightingale
#74. The morning sun has a lesson to teach us - without judging, love everyone as he does.
Debasish Mridha
#75. If you don't look back to self reflect, you're only going to repeat the same mistakes. Those mistakes will continue to show up in your dating lifescape because you haven't learned the lesson they were supposed to teach you.
Jaha Knight
#76. I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn.
Letitia Baldrige
#77. Should I get wind of another such rumor, I shall ruthlessly proceed against the person in question - not in a court of law, that is not my way. But I shall dedicate my next book to him ! : the economic and social consequences will teach him a lesson for the rest of his life !
Arno Schmidt
#78. Showing charity towards others is the biggest lesson we can
teach our children to guide them in their future on this planet.
Simin Hashemizadeh
#79. Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
Aeschylus
#80. My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."
Simon Cowell
#81. I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
Brad Meltzer
#82. It is not memories but the person we have become because of those past experiences that we should treasure. This is the lesson these keepsakes teach us when we sort them. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not the person we were in the past. P.118
Marie Kondo
#83. The whole point of life is to learn love. Life is the school, love is the lesson and we are all here to teach each other.
Kate McGahan
#84. The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is
needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.
Madeleine L'Engle
#86. The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
Frank Herbert
#87. To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
#88. I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me.
Just tell me where you are.
Melina Marchetta
#89. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.
Paul Neilan
#90. My dad's idea of bonding was throwing me in the tar pits to teach me a lesson, though I'm not sure what the lesson was, except to stay the hell away from Da.
Kevin Hearne
#91. Sometimes it is time to make new mistakes to finally learn a particular lesson, if making the same mistake again doesn't teach you.
Ben Tolosa
#92. It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.
Nicholas Sparks
#93. Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.
Ujas Soni
#94. Did he teach you how to bore you opponents to sleep? Because I think I missed that lesson - Allie
Julie Kagawa
#95. It is foolish to teach a person a lesson by killing them. For they'd be too dead to learn anything.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#96. Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.
David Levithan
#97. Life is here to teach us, so be a good student. Mistakes are the only way we learn.
Dannika Dark
#98. When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad.
Rita Zahara
#99. Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki
#100. Friends, you like it or not, life has a way of teaching us all these tough lessons.
Sunday Adelaja