Quotes About Lessons

the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

however the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

We citizens of Luna are jailbirds and descendants of jailbirds. But Luna herself is a stern schoolmistress; those who have lived through her harsh lessons have no cause to feel ashamed.

I recall the day you swiped one of my cigars, and how sick it made you. Your mother and I carefully avoided noticing that you couldn't eat dinner that night and I've never mentioned it to you until now—boys have to try such things and discover for themselves that men's vices are not for them.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

Pike immediately started the Jeep, but kept his voice calm. Panic bred panic. Calm inspired calm. These were lessons he learned in the battle space.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away.

Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.

good luck is more dangerous than bad luck. Bad luck teaches valuable lessons about patience, timing, and the need to be prepared for the worst; good luck deludes you into the opposite lesson, making you think your brilliance will carry you through. Your fortune will inevitably turn, and when it does you will be completely unprepared.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

Every experience is a potential life lesson. Even if you don't appreciate it at the time, each struggle in the present is preparing you for something else in the future.

Our scars tell stories of who we are and what we did. A person without marks hasn't done anything.

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

Pelajaran adalah hal yang berharga bagi anak laki-laki.

Bobier and colleagues give annual talks on safety to the town's children, lessons that they hope will stay with them through adulthood.

They can learn- they must learn- to appreciate the history of their good fortune through the experiences of those who not only witnessed history, but made it.

You can't forget anything," I said, watching the words vanish into nothing. "And even if you do, it always comes back to bitch-slap you in the morning.

Some mistakes you never can make good.

Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them. I forgot once again never to take anything for granted

for experience does not always mean wisdom.

I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet, scoffed Marilla. You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that should be put to your lessons. Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.