Lessons Quotes - Page 27

• I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Compassion, Conceit

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul (February 27)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

  Alfred Austin

  Lips, Maidens, Bashfulness

  Alfred Austin (1873). “Madonna's child [a poem].”, p.7

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• The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Good Man, Vices

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.72

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• There's a lesson in every temptation.

  Frank Herbert

  Temptation

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.363, Penguin

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• Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Eye, Men, Years

  Arthur Hugh Clough, F. H. Langman (1964). “Selected poems”

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• The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Love Is, Giving

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.199

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• In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

  Stefan Zweig

  Understanding, Suffering, Abnormal

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.

  Nas

  Land, Example, Stories

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of everything, and I realized I hadn't asked myself one question: And then what? That was my most important lesson. I learned to think about the consequences before the action and that saves me, to this day, from a lot of trouble. If you play it down the line, you'll start making better choices.

  Karrine Steffans

  Thinking, Play, Losing Control

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God.

  Karrine Steffans

  Fall, Live Life, Blessing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

  Douglas Alexander

  Past, Important

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Memories, Trying, Commit

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Perspective, World

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• Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Giving, Lesson Learned, Mind

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• A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.

  Antwone Fisher

  Boys, Ties, Succeeding In Life

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• I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

  Billy Joel

  Mother, Years, Piano

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• Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.

  Nick Farr-Jones

  Appreciation, Sacrifice, Player

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• There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing

  Black Francis

  Song, Kings, Reading

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• Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.

  Derek Rydall

  Blessing, Giving, Next

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• The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

  Louise Suggs

  Golf, Lessons To Be Learned, Discipline

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• The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mistake, Men, Ignorant

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• I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

  Toni Morrison

  Father, Names, Daddy

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 12, 2011

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• Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Waiting, Teach

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

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• A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lesson Learned, Muzzle, Forgotten

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Self, May

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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