Lesson Quotes - page 3

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. (Cyril Connolly)
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited. View quote
Cyril Connolly
My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well. View quote
Yanni
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. View quote
Amy Tan
History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease. View quote
Jimmy Carter
The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. View quote
Donna Tartt
After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and always will be a superior man. View quote
Anton LaVey
They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that. View quote
Phil Plait
The Bible is God's great lesson book. View quote
Ellen G. White
In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life. (Ken Wilber)
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. View quote
Timothy Geithner
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats. View quote
Napoleon Hill
I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. View quote
Douglas Coupland
The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. It's very empowering, and I've learned a lot of that from Jay-Shawn Carter-Z, because his approach to life is very internal. It's a very good lesson to learn. source. View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people. View quote
Grover Cleveland
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady. View quote
Jane Austen
When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt. View quote
Larry Holmes
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation. (Richard Feynman)
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. View quote
Penélope Cruz
Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach. View quote
Aeschylus