Top 1200 Moral Lessons Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.

Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

You know, 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.

My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

Building my family and my business in Jasper has taught me so much in my life, and one of those lessons is to always put people first.

There are a lot of lessons that people can take from me, that they can start to apply because I don't think that I can beat the Democrat Media Complex by myself.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

We learn a lot of life lessons in how we play this great game, and I've been fortunate enough to be involved in it at every level.

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

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

While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

America needs to fully grasp the lessons learned from our history of fighting radical jihadists. There have been successes and failures.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

I got a lot of great life lessons from the entertainment industry. The first was being able to feel comfortable taking risks.

In the early 1970s, I took singing lessons with John Hargreaves, a leading singer with English National Opera, when I was home from university.

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

I think one of the biggest lessons I continue to learn is having humility and being thankful for what you have because everything's a grind and it doesn't get easier.

After you get a season under your belt, you learn a lot of lessons. It's a much bigger challenge, logistically, in terms of production.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!

When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.

...choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.