Lessons Quotes

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

The things that happen in your life are either your choices or opportunities and lessons the universe has put before you. Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

There's a lesson in every temptation.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

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.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

Shake It Up definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always.

If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

I don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.

I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Some things need to be left unsaid.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.