Quotes About Lessons

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history.

Islam is in a formative period struggling to consolidate the vast reach won by both inspiration and force at its founding. Two centuries along, the faith of Muhammad hangs like an intricate veil: a religion still searching for institutional wholeness, a set of lessons to live by.

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

academy—instructors set up scenarios to show trainees how

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

My point here is not that the Iraq War was a bad idea in the first place (though it certainly was). My point is that this cynical, foolish, arguably illegal war might still have come right in the end—if only we had tried a little less hard to fix everything that struck us as broken.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Pain comes to us from deep back, from where it grew in the human body. Pain sucks more pain into it, we don't know why. It lives, and we harbor its weight. When the worst comes, we will not act the opposite. We will do what we were taught, we who learnt our lessons in the dead light. We pass them on. We hurt, and hurt others, in a circular motion.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget.

La grande défaite, en tout, c'est d'oublier, et surtout ce qui vous a fait crever.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct.

Os exemplos não se fizeram senão para ser citados.

Que querias tu, afinal, meu velho mestre de primeiras letras? Lição de cor e compostura na aula; nada mais, nada menos do que quer a vida, que é das últimas letras; com a diferença que tu, se me metias medo, nunca me meteste zanga.

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do

There are, I think, two important lessons here. The first is that truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. [...] The second lesson is that in good decision making, frugality matters

Even the most gifted of lawyers, equipped with the best of family lessons, cannot escape the limitations of their generation.

What Borgenicht was getting in his eighteen-hour days was a lesson in the modern economy. He was learning market research. He was learning manufacturing. He was learning how to negotiate with imperious Yankees. He was learning how to plug himself into popular culture in order to understand new fashion trends.

Experience is a collection of our successes and failures.

Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it.

Great losses are great lessons.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.