Lessons Quotes
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There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
Horace
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
William Osler
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The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every man, who has fought in a battle, is now ash, every sword has been eaten by rust, but the lessons still must be learned
Conn Iggulden
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
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I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
Scott Turow
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I don't know if it Mary and Jane is a do-over or wanting someone to have made certain entertainment for us that did not exist when we were that age, but we keep going back and doing it again. I have a 12-year-old girl now and I want to make things that will speak to her. Things that will that have lessons for her to take away.
Deborah Kaplan
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
William Godwin
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We burned the bras we burned the hair we burned the credit cards and cash we burned the rings around the fingers we broke the fingers and the nails we burned the burning in their loins we burned them and we burned them. The lessons pilled up on the floor like the dream of a wall around our people that could not be felt. The colors of their lipsticks and foldings and our dry hump was overwriting the previous year’s best clothing designers’ dreamlives, thereby overriding yours.
Blake Butler
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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind.
Edwin Lefevre
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Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
Lewis Carroll
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The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.
Michael Sam
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One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. The head and body - you know, a baby's born inside a woman's stomach, you know all that. But to watch this thing come out and fight for life, yo, and to see the woman's risking her life at the same time this thing is fighting for life, you know what I mean?
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Ernest Dimnet
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
Sherman Alexie
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All of life’s great lessons involve loss.
Eric Van Lustbader
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle
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Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.
Cherie Carter-Scott
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I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.
Eva Longoria
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
Ned Vizzini
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Kindness to animals seems to me to be one of the most rudimentary lessons of all.
Suzy Shuster