Lesson Learned Quotes

• People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Life, People, Complicated

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.75, Penguin

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• Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lessons, Strategy

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• In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

  Tom Bodett

  Life, Encouraging, Education

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• I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Believe, Understanding, Important

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• Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

  Don Williams

  Luck, Lessons, Way

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• It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Lessons

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• Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

  Twyla Tharp

  Giving Up, Life Lesson, Failure

  "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Tharp". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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• A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from these experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the possibilities in what some people call "the game of life." When we've "been there" and "done that," we can have as good of an idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is certainly an excellent teacher!

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Past, Games

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• The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

  A.M. Jenkins

  Knowing, Lessons, Firsts

  A. M. Jenkins (2009). “Repossessed”, p.22, Harper Collins

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  Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

  Erykah Badu

  Blessing, Would Be, Lessons

  Song: On And On, Album: Baduizm, 1997

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• A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Muzzle, Lessons, Forgotten

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• With every case from years ago there should be lessons learned.

  Jeh Johnson

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson

  Decision, Lessons, Results

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

  Jay-Z

  Dope, Lessons, Defeat

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• Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.

  Barbara Rose

  Teacher, Determination, Adversity

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• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Cost, World, Lessons

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Memories, Eye

  "Selected Poems (Fall of a City)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1941.

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• He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Life Lesson, Learning

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• Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

  Sloane Crosley

  Transition, Lessons, Study

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• The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.

  Bryan Kest

  Challenges, Lessons, Reason

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• Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.

  Nick Vujicic

  Opportunity, Goal, Perfection

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.131, WaterBrook

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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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• Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

  Dan Fogelberg

  Education, Pain, Bridges

  Song: Lessons Learned, Album: Nether Lands, 1977

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• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group

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