Best 1267 quotes in «lessons quotes» category

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.

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

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

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

The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

The folks like myself that do this for a living, we were expecting a regular campaign had built the databases, done all the new social media, learned our lessons from [Barack] Obama whipping us twice on how to do voter contact, and then Donald Trump gets in it and turns it into a national election.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

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

The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.

The lectures you deliver may be wise and true, But I'd rather get my lessons by observing what you do. I may not understand the high advise you like to give, But there's no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.

The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.