Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

Jessica Lange

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Jake T. Austin

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

Eva Longoria

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

Ernest Hemingway

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

Ernest Hemingway

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Henry Miller

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Christine Taylor

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

Jessye Norman

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.

Ian Somerhalder

Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.

Jennifer Lawrence

It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone.

Jennifer Lawrence

You look how you look

Sheena Easton

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Niki Taylor

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.

Michael Caine

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

Johnny Mathis

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

John Wooden

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

Mike White

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

Lev Grossman

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

Patti Davis

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Dash Mihok

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

Hillary Clinton

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.

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.

Susan L. Taylor

Our lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us to attend to our emotional selves and to learn new ways of being in the world. Although many of our losses are painful, they encourage our gains. The lesson life is trying to teach us is that, regardless of the challenges and changes in the physical world, we will abide in peace by aligning ourselves with our inner changelessness. The power of God in us is more than equal to any moment-no matter what it brings. We live in a loving, supportive universe that is always saying yes to us.

Sue Grafton

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

Reed Hastings

Be big, fast and flexible.

Helen Mirren

I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.

Hilary Duff

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, than that's their opinion.