The Lessons Quotes

#1. Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Ronnie James Dio

#2. To those of you who have lost your way, may my story serve as a reminder that life is a journey. The lessons we learn along the way are not for our sake alone. We are obligated to share them

Nancy B. Brewer

#3. I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

Kajol

#4. I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

Rachel Nichols

#5. As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

Sidney Poitier

#6. My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

Quentin Bryce

#7. No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Robert Greene

#8. We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

Heinz Fischer

#9. In this Life, we are given a choice to accept or reject our Lessons. If we accept them, we become a better person. If we reject the Lessons, we become a bitter person.

KoKo Nervelli

#10. I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

Jimmy Carter

#11. One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

Georges St-Pierre

#12. The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.

Susan L. Taylor

#13. That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure.

David McDonald

#14. Conscience tells us in our innermost being of the presence of God and of the moral difference between good and evil; but this is a fragmentary message, in no way as distinct and comprehensive as the lessons of the Bible.

Billy Graham

#15. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

#16. Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

Kate Winslet

#17. The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#18. One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

Jude Watson

#19. One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

Juan Enriquez

#20. Until you are willing to learn the lessons, pay attention to details, and become patient with yourself, you will keep repeating the same patterns over and over again.

Kemi Sogunle

#21. Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

Flavor Flav

#22. When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?

Michel Martin

#23. I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.

Victor Ortiz

#24. We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Thomas Jefferson

#25. Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.

Naomi Judd

#26. Make nature your best teacher. With great love, learn from her the lessons of life.

Debasish Mridha

#27. The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught

Stephen King

#28. Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.

T.A. Uner

#29. I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Laurent Fabius

#30. Life's experiences are not woven with a constant thread; Life in our world is constantly changing. We must repurpose what we have endured and the lessons we have learned; creating a renewed sense of hope. Life is what it is. The question is... What are you willing to do to change your life?

Brian Michael Good

#31. Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.

Ellen DeGeneres

#32. Wisdom comes from experience, either the experience of others or of oneself. And to let experience do its work, a person has to be open to receiving the lessons that it has to teach.

Henry Cloud

#33. Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today.

Annette Thomas

#34. Note the lessons a broken heart has taught you but don't ever alter the love you can give. Don't let a broken heart hinder your kind of love.

Aline Alzime

#35. Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

Katherine Anne Porter

#36. One of the lessons of 9/11 and (Hurricane) Katrina was 'communication, communication, communication, .. We don't want to have to say 'should have, could have, would have.'.

Mufi Hannemann

#37. We cannot protect people from the lessons we ourselves have learned.

Kij Johnson

#38. My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.

Bayard Taylor

#39. I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also.

Wes Fesler

#40. The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.

Julianna Baggott

#41. I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.

Tony Blair

#42. That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.

Emma Campion

#43. Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.

Luther Burbank

#44. I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen ... go wrong

George MacDonald Fraser

#45. I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.

Rick Scott

#46. We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence.

Rene Cassin

#47. We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

Alexander Haig

#48. In my experience, successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more than the immediate trophies and glory.

Josh Waitzkin

#49. The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

Jane Addams

#50. Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#51. Therefore, as we grow older, let us be more thankful that the circle of our Christmas associations and of the lessons that they bring, expands!

Charles Dickens

#52. If there is a reason to be sorrowful, then there is a reason to be happy. You have only one lifetime, don't live your life in sorrow! Be happy! Be happy no matter what, and only mind the lessons life teaches each day!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#53. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

#54. The lessons his mother had instilled had taken hold: Do your best. Don't be arrogant. Never complain.

George W. Bush

#55. The lessons Morden had learnt when he had broken Billard's finger were that not many understood the real nature of pain, and even fewer understood that true power does not come from indiscriminate acts but calculated demonstrations of Will.

Paul Dale

#56. Always remember that the lessons you learn in life are never meant just for you. They are like all our gifts, they are meant to be used and shared, never horded and hidden.

John Patrick Hickey

#57. From nature one can learn the lessons of divine providence, and some of us need to be reminded of this because we can look and not see a world alive with God's presence.

Scot McKnight

#58. It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.

Julie B. Beck

#59. I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.

Warren Mundine

#60. I openly talk about my past because we should embrace our mistakes and our dark times, because without them we'd never have the lessons and the light.

Kathryn Perez

#61. With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

Lee Myung-bak

#62. I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger.

Nancy B. Brewer

#63. Life will throw a lot at you, so you can count on learning something new every day. I have learned to open my heart and let life teach me whatever it has to offer. Every day is a gift wrapped in the lessons of tomorrow.

Amy Lynn Steele

#64. Meeting obstacles can be a blessing! Just know the lesson and change something with the lessons and you shall see a new lesson with a blessing!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#65. Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.

Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere

#66. The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.

Alan Cohen

#67. A person must pass the lessons learned on to others - or there has been no real gift at all.

Richard Rohr

#68. learn the lessons before they are over. Life is a composition of series and sequence of lessons. Each lesson comes with its own lessons to learn. our failure to learn the lessons of one shall be the reasons to learn another lesson with similar lessons.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#69. Mindfulness helps you understand that the past is gone, can't be changed and all the lessons are already learned.

Lidiya K.

#70. What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

Anatoli Boukreev

#71. If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction.

Christine Upton

#72. I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.

Nas

#73. All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

Adam Johnson

#74. FORGIVENESS IS A SILENT, INTIMATE TEACHER. SHE IS ALWAYS READY TO BRING THE LESSONS YOU NEED, WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO LEARN.

Iyanla Vanzant

#75. The lessons learned hardest were the lessons learned best.

Linda Howard

#76. Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

Helen McCloy

#77. It's a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you're able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive.

Ann Patchett

#78. It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

#79. The road to success is littered with failures, but the lessons learned are crucial in plotting your course to success!

Kristi Loucks

#80. The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh things correctly. The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth.

Theodore T. Munger

#81. If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

Jim Rohn

#82. Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species - including man - crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

Werner Herzog

#83. Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

Julianna Baggott

#84. Time is fleeting, life is short.
Learn the lessons, you must be taught.
Destiny waits, for those it calls.
The choice is yours, one and all.

SKETA

#85. NONE OF THIS IS REAL EXCEPT THE LESSONS YOU LEARN

Steve Merrick

#86. The streets will teach you about racism and capitalism and survival of the fittest. Don't worry about that. The only thing you've got to worry about is if you've got enough cold-blooded ambition to apply the lessons you get taught.

Snoop Dogg

#87. Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Norman Borlaug

#88. One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

Delroy Lindo

#89. 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

#90. You've learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast.
'What lesson might that be?'
'That the lessons never end.' He laughed, gingerly sipped his steaming tea. 'That ignorance is infinite.

R. Scott Bakker

#91. Maybe you're not meant to remember the details. Just the feelings. Just the lessons. Just the love.
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Susan Wiggs

#92. Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

Len Deighton

#93. Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.

Hilaire Belloc

#94. All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

John Ralston Saul

#95. Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

David A. Bednar

#96. God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

Susan Crandall

#97. Don't suffocate your spirit for the lessons that were only passing through spring.

Nikki Rowe

#98. These are the lessons young people who are locked up learn instead: to close off their emotions, shut down their intellect, quell their individuality, avoid forming connections, and view all interactions through the prism of Power.

Nell Bernstein

#99. No time is really wasted unless one never learns the lessons that it offers.

Mary Balogh

#100. But on those Friday afternoons, ambition did not spread its wings to embrace the study of medicine. We all wanted to be masters like our teachers. Their life appeared to be so enjoyable. All they had to do was learn the lessons set, by heart, and sit and hear boys repeat them by rote.

Austin Clarke