Top 1200 Moral Lessons Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral perfection (although you will become more moral), not tranquility (although your life will be remarkably more peaceful). And because of the grace you have in Christ, the disciplines will do nothing to make you more accepted by the Father. You cannot be more accepted than you already are in Christ, since He has already done it all for you!

Dancing all night and then vocal lessons right after was hard and not unusual - but I enjoyed it.

My playing is all about feel. I'm completely self taught: I never took any lessons or anything.

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

I have only got encouragement and lessons from my family, so I don't associate negative things like pressure with them.

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

I was taught some very good life lessons and morals as a young kid growing up.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

I'm actually thinking about acting lessons. If somebody says to me, 'You can be in the movies,' I'd be pretty happy.

Pretty much hated school. I never really found my footing. I just didn't like lessons.

I am taking Chinese lessons and I practice speaking Mandarin almost every day.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

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

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

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories in a communist society: honest men and bad men. The "honest" ones resist compromising or collaborating with the regime, while the "bad" are the persecutors and collaborators. You can choose to be on one side or the other, but there is nothing in between. In a normal society, other factors can define who you are. You can be a good worker, sociable, tough, generous, tolerant, collaborative, friendly.

He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

If all girls turn strong within themselves, men with bad intentions can be taught apt lessons.

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

Perhaps lessons learned from space can be applied to other areas particularly to the solution of social problems.

The lessons I learned starting Netflix - and over a lifetime of entrepreneurship - are broadly applicable to anyone with a dream.

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

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!