Lessons Quotes
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When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.
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Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. Many people today resent the suggestion that they’re in charge of the way they feel.Those people are mistaken. That was a big lesson and I learned it several hundred times before it stuck. What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.
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I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.
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Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.
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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.
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Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
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Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.
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As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.
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I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.
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Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.
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My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That's when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, "This is what I've gotta do." So, I started taking acting lessons, and then I applied to college to do acting. I got an agent, and it all just happened.
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One of the first lessons running teaches us about success in athletics and in life is that there is no one else. No one else can do your workouts for you. You alone must do the drills, repeat the core exercises, stretch, and lift the weights. You cannot hire someone else to do your cross-training when you are battling injury, or pay someone to run a race and get you a new PR. You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.
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Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.
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Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
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Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.
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Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.
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We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.
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Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
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The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.
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Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
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I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.
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To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
