Top 100 We Must Learn Quotes
#1. While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves. We can't focus or base our happiness on another's progress; we can focus only on our own.
Stephen R. Covey
#2. We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.
Charles Lindbergh
#3. we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life. And in its original version, before an appendix was added, it concluded with one of the most religious sentences written in the twentieth Century:
Viktor E. Frankl
#4. We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know them, not as we imagine them to be. We must learn to live with crisis in an age which calls for cool heads and accurate appraisals.
Percy Spender
#5. We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it.
Michael D. O'Brien
#6. We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.
Tony Judt
#7. While love lasts it should be relished, gobbled up like ice cream, explored as the conquistadors explored the unknown continent. But when love evaporates, when love hurts, we must learn to let go of the idea that love is forever.
Chloe Thurlow
#8. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#9. Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
Jim Fowler
#10. We must learn how to not allow the enemy to have a handhold of our joy and our peace.
Clifford Ashley
#11. And we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.
George Eliot
#12. We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
Edward Teller
#13. Do we desire such knowledge of God? Then two things follow. First, we must recognize how much we lack knowledge of God. We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts.
J.I. Packer
#14. We must learn to do more with temptation than just bear it - we must learn to use it. The secret of using temptation, and turning it to our advantage, is one of life's greatest secrets. Once we have learned it we are unbeatable and unbreakable.
Selwyn Hughes
#15. You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#16. It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.
Leslie Ludy
#17. A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.
Lame Deer
#18. We must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.
Muhammad Asad
#19. We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be ...
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#21. We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our
strength.
Joan D. Chittister
#22. The truth is that fear cannot coexist with love. Therefore, we must learn how to dissolve all boundaries with love by taking responsibility for our own energy. In doing so, we'll raise the energy around us.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#24. Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.
Joan D. Chittister
#25. We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
Eric Ries
#26. What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#27. My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.
David McCullough
#28. Why compete with others? Each individual has a unique gifts and role to perform. We must learn to complement each other.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected ... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
John Naisbitt
#31. We must learn a new modesty. We have stormed the heavens, but succeeded only in building fog upon fog, a mist which will not support anybody who earnestly desires to stand upon it. What is valid seems so insignificant that it may be seriously doubted whether anlaysis is at all possible.
Hermann Weyl
#32. To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#33. Danger is a chain ... passed from one wounded child to the next. We must stop the danger by breaking the chain. We must learn how to stay safe and be kind.
Margarita Engle
#34. Where there's life, there's learning, and the truth is always calling us out of our pride. If we don't harken, it will call louder, and throw a situation at us. A pebble at first. If we still don't listen, we'll get a stone. Then a rock. Then a great crashing boulder. We must learn, or die.
Orna Ross
#36. As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
Julia Cameron
#38. Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#39. The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology
the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.
Edward Abbey
#40. As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him - to give God "elbow room." We plan and figure and predict that this or that will happen, but we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses.
Oswald Chambers
#41. Let's face it, we're all imperfect and we're going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.
John Wooden
#42. There are many things in this unhappy world we cannot alter. We must learn to live with our lot and find peace with ourselves.
Robin Jarvis
#43. We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#44. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.
Kelsang Gyatso
#45. Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.
Angelina Jolie
#46. Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds ...
Jacques Attali
#47. Life is hard and astonishingly complicated ... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work
or want to work
will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
Sinclair Lewis
#48. But if intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to sharpen it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies - to use it as cats use stealth, as walking sticks use camouflage, to make it the tool of our survival.
Carl Sagan
#49. We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.
Heinrich Boll
#50. To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a far broader and more important lesson.
Michel De Montaigne
#51. In transitions, we must learn to be still. Being still is, in part, about learning to be comfortable with ambiguity.
Janet Rebhan
#52. We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect ... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs ... if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
Aaron Siskind
#53. We must learn to live triumphantly amid the traumas and pressures we face daily.
Billy Graham
#54. Our lives are a continuing journey - and we must learn and grow at every bend as we make our way, sometimes stumbling, but always moving, toward the finest within us.
Gerald Coffee
#55. to know the future we must learn the past...knowing the past we act on the present for a better future....
Eda
#56. We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
Jim Rohn
#57. We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
J. William Fulbright
#58. We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
Helene Cixous
#59. Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
W. Edwards Deming
#60. We must learn to be strange enough to have a prophetic voice, but connected enough to prophesy to those who need to hear. We
Russell D. Moore
#61. Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#62. When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.
Peter McWilliams
#63. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.
Bell Hooks
#64. We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
Amy Vanderbilt
#65. Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
Meister Eckhart
#67. We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
Michael Rostovtzeff
#68. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice we must not act without. Who am i-though i have the power to do it- to punish and reward, playing with men's destinies?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#69. Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.
A.B. Simpson
#70. The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.
Mark Sheppard
#71. We must learn to love ourselves less and the earth more. This will not be an easy task for we live in the age of nonsense. Bombarded with thousands of messages each day that proclaim how to be loved instead of how to be loving, we have learned to love objects instead of processes.
Steve Van Matre
#72. To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
John Powell
#73. Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.
Harley King
#74. We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.
Karl Jaspers
#75. We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.
Pope Francis
#76. When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#77. Before we can experience the pure & serene state of love, we must learn how to give forgiveness - to ourselves & to others. Have you forgiven yourself?
Debbie Ford
#78. TO GROW OUR MIND- We must learn new things. We must CARE for more things. We must TEACH more things. We must SHARE more things. We must RETAIN more things. To grow our mind - We don't need education, We need a good memory.
Lorenzo Victory
#79. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#80. Sometimes, we must learn to open our hearts and grow to love someone we think we might not be able to.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#82. If we want to feel deeply about God, we must learn to think deeply about God.
Jen Wilkin
#83. No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
David Goodstein
#84. I suppose the simple truth we must learn to reclaim is the power of the hug, of the embrace. Not just of neighbor, enemy, ourselves or even God. The abundance of life is known through the embrace of it all.
David Arthur Auten
#86. God's plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand.
Jerry Bridges
#87. If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.
Yehuda Berg
#88. In the journey of life, we pass pleasures & pain. There will be sunshine and rain; there will be loss and gain. But we must learn to smile again and again.-RVM
R.v.m.
#90. We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
William Arthur Ward
#91. We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.
John Portman
#92. That's a very murky position," objected Felix.
"So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.
Gail Carriger
#93. We cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain.
Jennifer Granholm
#94. If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.
Harold Klemp
#95. If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#96. We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
Zora Neale Hurston
#97. Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#98. To change our eating habits, we must learn to eat mindfully, being more aware of chewing and tasting what we eat so that the brain can register the incoming nutrients.
John M. Poothullil
#99. We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#100. And I find I must remember that the pain is not its own reason for being. It is a part of living. And the only kind of pain that is intolerable is pain that is wasteful, pain from which we do not learn. And I think that we must learn to distinguish between the two.
Audre Lorde
