Life Lesson Quotes - Page 5

• The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

  Georg Solti

  Hard Work, Discipline, People

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

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• The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Life, Lessons, I've Learned

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• Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.

  L. Tom Perry

  Children, Home, Anchors

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• Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

  Shania Twain

  Lessons, Betrayed, Teach

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life, Important, Be Kind

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• It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Jobs, People, Like You

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.364, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

  Hilary Duff

  People, Upset, Energy

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• No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Letting Go, Memories

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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.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Life, Lessons, Sometimes

  Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 26, 1999.

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• Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Children, Book

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Numbers, Forget The Past

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• I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Tolls, Remains

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2933, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

  Lena Dunham

  Running, Self Reflection, Situation

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• I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Mistake, People, Growing

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• The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields. they laughed all the time.

  Andrew Shue

  Sports, Fun, Joy

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• You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Art, Air, Important

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• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  Vince Gill

  Mom, Baseball, Dad

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• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

  John McEnroe

  Wall, Fun, Important

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• I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Men, Lessons

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue”

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• Patience is the First Lesson.

  Thomas T. Riley

  Life, Learning, Lessons

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• I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

  Joe Mantegna

  Mean, Trying, Lessons

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• It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

  Michael Caine

  Looks, Lessons

  Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  People, Perspective, Inspire

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.

  Brian Weiss

  Relationship, Moving On, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Dr. Brian Weiss from Apr 12, 2014

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• Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it’s probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave.

  Michele Jaffe

  Groups, Hey, Lessons

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