Best 1267 quotes in «lessons quotes» category

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

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

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.

Part of company culture is path-dependent.  It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

Patience is the First Lesson.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

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.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

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

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.

Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Saviour! teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved me. Charity is the very livery of Christ.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

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.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

Some of the best lessons come from a bad day and there's a few we can learn from today.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?