Top 1200 Moral Lessons Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

One of the big lessons I have learnt from my life is that things are never as difficult as they seem. When you actively plunge into it, you realize you can easily do it.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

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

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

One of the main lessons I've learnt is to give back more than you take, and that has become a core part of my life.

Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up.

Teaching the guitar is a constant source of inspiration. I sometimes think I get more out of the lessons than my students.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

With some things, karma is good enough. Lessons come back in different ways, you know what I mean?

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.

One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you.

In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

I get free life lessons from J-Hope and Jimin; sometimes it's like they're 10 years older than me.

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We're impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Have I ever had dance lessons? I'm mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.

I want to take acting lessons first. But I'd love to find the right film, a 'Breakfast Club' kind of thing.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

There is so much that I have learnt from Shilpa. She also didn't come from any filmi background, so I took lessons from her mistakes.

If I was running a British School of classical music I'd employ Tai Chi teachers to help the conductors at the end of their lessons.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

We must learn the lessons of the 2008 crash: no company should be able to become too big to fail.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

I got so much negative feedback about my accent. People saying, 'Yeah, you need to go to elocution lessons.'

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

I had to use a lot of the lessons I learned from fighting Samoa Joe and apply them to Bray Wyatt.

In my early career, there were more negative lessons than positive ones. But I don't think I was looking for the positives enough.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.