Life Lesson Quotes - Page 7

• I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.

  Hilary Duff

  Regret, Mistake, Thinking

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• I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy with who I am, and I'm happy with the way people portray me. If it's too normal, then that's their opinion.

  Hilary Duff

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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

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• Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Responsibility, Tennis, Decision

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• Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

  Selena Gomez

  Childhood, Decision, Define You

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• Be big, fast and flexible.

  Reed Hastings

  Bigs, Flexible

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• I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

  Herb Kelleher

  Scared, Life Death

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• I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

  Christine Taylor

  Frustrated, Horizon, Lessons

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

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

  Ernest Dimnet

  Life, Lessons, Rewards

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

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• If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

  Lev Grossman

  Wish, Lessons, Teach

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.216, Penguin

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• Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Tough

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

  Richelle Mead

  Lessons, Next, Zen Life

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.351, Penguin

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• Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bullfighting, Way, Sun Also Rises

  The Sun Also Rises ch. 2 (1926)

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• No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Macmillan

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• It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Children, Learning

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.21, Beacon Press

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• It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Pride, Two

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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

  Hard Work, Mean, Responsibility

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• When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

  Regina Brett

  Ideas, Soul, Bed

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• When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

  Lech Walesa

  Lying, Hatred, Deceit

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• Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

  Steig Larsson

  Guarantees, Related

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• The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 27, 2015

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• They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wise, Army, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

  Sue Grafton

  Lessons, You Like It, Critical

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.40, Penguin

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• I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

  Colonel Sanders

  Life, Motivational, Determination

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

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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

  Book, Healing, Heart

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• ...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

  John Muir

  Song, Flower, Animal

  John Muir (2006). “Our National Parks”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

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