Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Marti

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

Henry Rollins

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Mandy Moore

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

James Russell Lowell

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Liam Payne

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

Kimberly Caldwell

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

Paul Begala

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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.

Kirstie Alley

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Nikki Reed

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

Neal A. Maxwell

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.

Joseph Brodsky

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Lev Grossman

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

Kip Winger

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

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Tennessee Williams

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Shania Twain

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

Selena Gomez

Speaking of friends, the best ones always have your back.

Selena Gomez

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

Selena Gomez

It's always better to be real.

Shel Silverstein

If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.

Shel Silverstein

If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it.

Shel Silverstein

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

Shel Silverstein

But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

Shel Silverstein

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

John D. Rockefeller

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

Lil Wayne

Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.

Julianne Hough

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

Judy Collins

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.

Paul Theroux

Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

Joe Bastianich

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.