Lessons Quotes - Page 10

• Every happening is a lesson, a message.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Messages, Happenings

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• That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

  Clare Short

  Peace, Anger, Mean

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• The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

  James Risen

  Army, Dating, Mind

  James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

  David Halberstam

  Jobs, Conventional

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• I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

  Skylar Laine

  Taken, Singing, Technique

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• Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. Many people today resent the suggestion that they’re in charge of the way they feel.Those people are mistaken. That was a big lesson and I learned it several hundred times before it stuck. What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Knowing, People

  "The 'big lesson' Mike Rowe learned several hundred times" by Mike Rowe, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

  Henry Timrod

  Dream, Heart, Secret

  Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

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• The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it’s what I now expect for myself.

  Karyn White

  Mind, Possibility, Given

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• With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

  Mitsuo Fuchida

  War, Self, Taught Us

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• There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life Lesson, Pay The Price, Skills

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• People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren’t just fantasies, you know. They’re so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Book, Writing, People

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds, capable of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real world.

  William Bagley

  Real, School, Skills

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• I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.

  Bob Proctor

  Winning, Littles, Steps

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 07, 2017

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• A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.

  Jordan Dane

  Journey, Destination, Take Time

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• A relationship should not suppress our adventure or suppress the speed with which we learn the lessons that are there for us to learn.

  Stewart Emery

  Adventure, Speed, Should

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• Personal credibility has everything to do with how others perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. Sandy Allgeier’s book teaches the all-important truth that it doesn’t matter how much money, status, or power you have if nobody believes in you. Every parent should read The Personal Credibility Factor and instill its lessons in their kids.Achieving a full understanding of these principles is the first step in becoming a truly great human being.

  Michele Borba

  Believe, Book, Kids

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• The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac represents the twelve lessons of human existence, the 12 qualities to be developed in the formation of the perfect man (and woman).

  Vera Stanley Alder

  Men, Zodiac, Perfect

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• You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes in life but only lessons, and lessons will keep on repeating until learned

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Way, Remember

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• Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Taken, Gun, Law

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• I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

  Megan Fox

  Life Lesson, School, Thinking

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 13, 2008.

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• If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

  Lee Iacocca

  Mistake, Suffering, Tough

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• As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

  Jessica Zafra

  Mistake, Long, Matter

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

  Jerry Gillies

  Mistake, Believe, Moving

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• The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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• Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.

  David Whyte

  Giving, Attention, Stories

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