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• The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Trust, Life Lesson, Men

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

  Sheena Easton

  Life Lesson, Teaching, Love Life

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• My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

  Judy Collins

  Life Lesson, Book, Healing

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• Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Life, Rewards, Genocide

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.49, Prabhat Prakashan

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• We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Life Lesson, Hard Work, Mean

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• The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

  Bobby Orr

  Smile, Sports, Teaching

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• One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

  Bob Richards

  Motivational, Life Lesson, Athlete

  Bob Richards (2009). “The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph”, p.74, Revell

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• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  Vince Gill

  Mom, Baseball, Dad

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• One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

  Sean Hannity

  Life Lesson, Want, Life Is

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• By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

  Marie Dressler

  Fifty, Hardest

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• The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

  Georg Solti

  Life Lesson, Hard Work, Discipline

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Life, Sometimes, Painful

  Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 26, 1999.

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• The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Reading, Book

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• I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Life Lesson, People, Perspective

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

  Tommy Shaw

  Fun, Hands, Trying

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

  Lynn Davies

  Life Lesson, Athlete, Winning

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• 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.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

  Henry Ford

  Leadership, Education, Wise

  "The Secret of Staying in Love". Book by John Powell, p. 85, 1990.

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• Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

  Christina Milian

  Practice, Sight, House

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• Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

  Heath Ledger

  I Hate You, Want, Inspiring Movie

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• 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.

  Don Williams

  Journey, Two, Twists

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• Lessons are not given, they are taken.

  Cesare Pavese

  Taken, Genocide, Given

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.280, Transaction Publishers

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• My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

  Gillian Anderson

  Life Lesson, Believe, People

  "Gillian of the Spirits". Interview with Virginia Campbell, gilliananderson.ws. January, 1999.

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• 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.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Past, Errors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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