Lessons Quotes

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

I think that every day we are taught lessons and sometimes we don't realize or see it.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way.

...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

Be inspired but not proud.

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.

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