Best 1267 quotes in «lessons quotes» category

When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

When I was taking my canoeing lessons I was given this oar to practice with, and I decided to have everyone sign it. All the cast and crew signed it and now I'm going to frame it.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness.

When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

When you’re young, you don’t know that you’re poor, you just know whether or not you’re happy. And i was happy, and loved. My mom did whatever she has to do to get by, and the lesson i learned from my childhood was that it’s possible to pursue happiness, no matter where that pursuit may lead you.

When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can get taught a painful lesson. And there are inmates with a level of consciousness who feel it's their duty to enforce this segregation.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

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

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

You always learn lessons in business.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.

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.

You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time I see you—which will be soon. Love, D.

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.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings.

A few years ago, a taxi driver told me about a club & a dog. A waiter spoke to me about ladders today. Life is full of lessons for those who listen.

Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes in life but only lessons, and lessons will keep on repeating until learned

A few years ago, a taxi driver told me about a club & a dog. A waiter taught me a lesson about ladders today. Life is full of class sessions for those who have passion & listen.