Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

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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.

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.

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.

Loretta Devine

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

Lord Chesterfield

A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.

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.

T. D. Jakes

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T. D. Jakes

Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith.

Suzanne Shaw

The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson.

Richelle Mead

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

Victoria Clark

Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

Romany Malco

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they’ve forgotten the hero.

Story Musgrave

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

Steve Jobs

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

Steve Jobs

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

Simon Cowell

Good is not enough. You've got to be great.

Shemar Moore

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

Shawn Johnson

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

Tennessee Williams

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

Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Tyler Perry

Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.

Trip Hawkins

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

Haruki Murakami

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

Zac Efron

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.