Top 1200 Important Life Lessons Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

What are the lessons learned? Well, I think number one is curiosity. It's the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. And the respect of your team is more important than all the laurels in the world.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.

One of the most important lessons that I learned in Ferguson was that in a true movement, everyone leads in some way. We need leaders with a shared vision, yes - but with a whole spectrum of skills, in every possible field.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.

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Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.

If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.

You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.

Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just take the bus when I was a kid and go. But I'd been writing music for years, since the smallest age.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

The biggest message, we hope, is that money is not the most important thing in life. You have to have it to survive and live but it's not the most important thing in life. It's the legacy you leave and the people that you wrap around you and the love that you have wrapped around you (that) should be the most important thing.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.

There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. But should it come to the very last, the most important one, at this point a man must halt and stand firm if he doesn't want to begin life all over again with idle hands and a feeling of being shipwrecked.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

I wrote the children's books, and those were wonderful tributes to my life as a daughter and a mother and just a thank-you to my parents for all the lessons in life they had passed on to me that I could pass onto my child and to other kids around the world.

You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the critical nature of oversights in financial markets and institutions.

I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.

One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.

Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

In life, there are always intense battles, and yet we must practise the lessons from the Gita.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

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.

No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.