Lessons Quotes - Page 9

• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, Virginia

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• "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.78, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

  Denton Cooley

  Disappointment, Failure, Science

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiring, Team, Sometimes

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2017

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• This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

  John McEnroe

  Tennis, Taught, Defeat

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• It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

  Pat Cash

  Opportunity, Cities, Giving

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• Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taken, Silence

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• I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way

  Cotton Mather

  Prayer, Children, Reading

  Cotton Mather (1912). “Diary of Cotton Mather, 1681-1724: 1681-1708”

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• Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

  Tom Lehrer

  Prayer, Mean, Nineteen

  Song: Mlf Lullaby, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

  Bob Hope

  Ambition, People, Dancing

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• Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

  Neil Peart

  Future, Past, Long Ago

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• The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, Tyrants, Adults

  Rabindranath Tagore (2009). “The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.

  Robin Sharma

  Real, Opportunity, Waiting

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

  Hugo Black

  Peace, War, Home

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• For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want, Chess

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• We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Chess, Should, Companion

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

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• My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.

  Robert Parish

  Funny, Father, Taught

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• The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Funny, Water, Want

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• After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

  Georg Solti

  Mother, Intelligent, Six Months

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.

  George Clooney

  Responsibility, Media, Years

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• The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

  Robert Breault

  Average, Long, Optimism

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• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

  Robert Collier

  Mistake, Lying, Adversity

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• It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gratitude, Evil, Compensation

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• World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.

  David Frum

  War, Fighting, History

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• I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Dying, Comfort, Faces

  Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

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