Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

After you've work hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy it.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Everyone wears an invisible sign that reads "Notice me. Make me feel important."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Celebrate even small victories.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Plant more flowers than you pick

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company.

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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

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.