I Have Learned Quotes

• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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• I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.

  Julianne MacLean

  Challenges, Hardship, Faces

  Julianne MacLean (2012). “Married by Midnight: Pembroke Palace Novella”, p.96, Julianne MacLean

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• No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Love, Failure, Learning

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• If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Thinking, Joy

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life, Important, Be Kind

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• I have learned that failure is a part of success; it's part of the learning curve. Sometimes you have to walk that road to achieve big things.

  Luis Gerardo Mendez

  Curves, Sometimes, Achieve

  "Origin Series: Club de Cuervos Actor Luis Gerardo Méndez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye.

  Pocahontas

  Goodbye, World, Changed

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• The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

  Kirk Douglas

  Giving, Havens

  "Jeffrey Katzenberg picks up a humanitarian honor" by Todd Longwell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 17, 2008.

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• I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, House, Smallest

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• What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, Degrees, Brilliant

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• I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

  Ann Hood

  Meaningful, Strong, Kissing

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• I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Nba, Trials

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• It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.

  Andy Rooney

  Two, Giving, Advice

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• I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hypocrite, People, Tolerance

  "Christopher Hitchens: 'You have to choose your future regrets'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Jobs

  "Beyoncé's Baby Love". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Life, Change, Letting Go

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• Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

  Maya Angelou

  Second Chance, Giving, Sometimes

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• There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

  C. S. Lewis

  Acquaintance, Seems

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Race

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• What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

  Denis Leary

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Long

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• I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.

  Peggy Lee

  Learning, Thinking, Silence

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