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• A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

  Anne Bancroft

  Travel, Thinking, Starting Up

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• I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Rocks, Community

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• My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

  Hilary Duff

  Mom, Believe, Losing Yourself

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• The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Long, Important, Lessons

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• You can successfully take a jab at your ex without having everyone criticize you for it.

  Selena Gomez

  Criticize, Your Ex, Exes

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

  Lynn Davies

  Athlete, Winning, Lessons

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• Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Success, Failure

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.147, Ballantine Books

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• Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Teenager

  Quoted in Fortune, 14 Sept. 1987

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• We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

  John Hope Franklin

  Country, Truth, Appreciate

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• The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

  Paul E. Gray

  Education, Teaching, Independent

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• In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Positive Thinking, Worry, Trouble

  Song: Don't Worry Be Happy

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• Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Teacher, Failure

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• Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.

  Tyler Perry

  People, Laughing, Inspire

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. June 25, 2012.

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• The Wayshower is a compelling, multi-layered and complex spiritual journey about a guilt-ridden man searching to understand his connection to his guru J-R. Followers of the real-life guru, John-Roger, as well as a segment of new-thought seekers, will resonate with the messages and life lessons shared throughout.

  Arielle Ford

  Spiritual, Real, Journey

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• Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

  Joe Bastianich

  Men, People, Stories

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• There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Past, Soul, Lessons

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• Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Dream, Song

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Powerful, Self, People

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• I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

  Jessye Norman

  Communication, Reading, Support

  "Jessye Norman: By the Book". www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

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• The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.

  Justin Timberlake

  Teacher, Responsibility, Taught Us

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• As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.

  Jennie Finch

  Jesus, Athlete, Character

  Interview with Gary Leland, fastpitch.tv. March 13, 2014.

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• I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.

  Kevin Ollie

  Basketball, Player, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

  Brother Ali

  White, Community, Black

  Interview with David Brusie, music.avclub.com. April 26, 2007.

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• I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.

  Julianne Hough

  Thinking, People, Church

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

  Hillary Clinton

  School, Hair, Yale

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