Hard Lessons Quotes

• The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

  Charlie Munger

  Lessons, Hard

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• Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

  Al Franken

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.14, Penguin

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• Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

  Donna Tartt

  Reality, Lessons, Succeed

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• My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Love Is, Lessons

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1448, Oxford University Press

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• Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

  Al Jourgensen

  Lessons, Shapes, Pay

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• Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

  Juliet Marillier

  Lessons, Difficult, Stills

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

  Rick Scott

  Taken, Leader, Lessons

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• It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

  Kristin Cashore

  Greatness, Suffering, Lessons

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.274, Penguin

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• It was a hard lesson to learn, but eventually I had to come to grips with the fact that I cannot solve everyone's problems and lead them to a happy, fulfilled life. They have to figure that out on their own.

  Theo Rossi

  Lessons, Facts, Problem

  "ORIGIN Interview: Sons of Anarchy Actor Theo Rossi". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

  Lois Lenski

  Men, Hands, Suffering

  Lois Lenski (2011). “Texas Tomboy”, p.197, Open Road Media

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• Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

  Donna Ball

  Mother, Choices, Forgiving

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• I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

  Lisa Unger

  Strength, Girl, Sexy

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.69, Crown

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• ...if God teaches us victory in Christ Jesus day by day, we live in the constant awareness of His greatness and His sufficiency. Hard lessons are often long-lasting lessons. Never forget that God is far more interested in our getting to know the Deliverer than simply being delivered.

  Beth Moore

  Jesus, Greatness, Long

  Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.128, B&H Publishing Group

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• So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Taken, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.143, Vintage

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• You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

  Jeremy Piven

  People, Lessons, Want

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Thinking, Views, Suffering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Civilization, Water, Environmental

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1131, Best Books on

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• To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

  Bruce Catton

  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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• I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

  William Kempe

  Heart, Done, Lessons

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• There’s no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

  Rick Scott

  Mistake, Taken, Responsibility

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• Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

  David James

  Dream, Sibling, Life Lesson

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• I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Mean, Gone, World

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• A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  Ouida

  Vices, New Life, Lessons

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• We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.

  Gwen Bristow

  Education, Hate, Learning

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• You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspirational, Graduation, Night

  "Commencement 2013 Speakers: Obama to Oprah Winfrey Bestow Words of Wisdom". abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2013.

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