Lessons Quotes

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.

Mistakes are about getting the blessing in the lesson and the lesson in the blessing.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons.

There are no mistakes, only lessons.

I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that... I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.

There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not. So there I was.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.