It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Votes: 4
Bill GatesLessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile. Votes: 3
Harvey PenickLessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living. Votes: 3
Shekhar KapurSometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons Votes: 3
Joseph BoydenA Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life. Votes: 3
Antwone FisherThe T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God. Votes: 3
T. D. JakesFear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. Votes: 2
Mary Catherine BatesonThat's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day. Votes: 2
Lewis CarrollA tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. Votes: 2
Dan RatherHe has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. Votes: 2
John DrydenThe most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience. Votes: 2
Mark TwainI don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. Votes: 2
Nicole PolizziYesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality. Votes: 0
B.J. NeblettI got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school. Votes: 0
Alberto JuantorenaReincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons. Votes: 0
Sylvia BrowneLearning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult. Votes: 0
Nicolas BentleyWe acquire insightful lessons of life in moments of failure than success. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaIt is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeSometimes, you don't need a $5,000 guitar - you need $5,000 worth of lessons. Votes: 0
Chris Smither... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons. Votes: 0
Mary Barnett GilsonGymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. Votes: 0
Shawn JohnsonI took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. Votes: 0
Maria Grazia CucinottaI look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities. Votes: 0
Omarosa ManigaultFreedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain. Votes: 0
Lee L JampolskyThe lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. Votes: 0
William GodwinFrom the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. Votes: 0
John Quincy AdamsKnowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times. Votes: 0
Terry GoodkindAnatomy lessons are much more fun when conducted in a private coed environment. Votes: 0
Dixie WatersWe should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion. Votes: 0
Mata AmritanandamayiThe most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons. Votes: 0
Andrew W.K.Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure. Votes: 0
Amos Bronson AlcottThe gift of the moments and its lessons prepares us for a better tomorrow. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaFreedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history. Votes: 0
A. J. P. TaylorYou learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve. Votes: 0
Katherine JenkinsWhen we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness. Votes: 0
David JeremiahThe challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonOur struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success. Votes: 0
Simon SinekI think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need. Votes: 0
Jennifer GreyWhen you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn Votes: 0
Jon GordonVery often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish Votes: 0
Janette RallisonTake and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned. Votes: 0
Kim KardashianSometimes we don't understand or we forget that there are no mistakes, only lessons. Votes: 0
Cherie Carter-ScottPart of company culture is path-dependent. It's the lessons you learn along the way. Votes: 0
Jeff BezosAll life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomerySince by definition learning is change, when you learn nature's lessons, you are changed. Votes: 0
Ron LizziLife gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaSometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light. Votes: 0
Barbara MarciniakOf all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. Votes: 0
Stephen GardinerSometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light. Votes: 0
Barbara MarciniakAn uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons. Votes: 0
Humphrey LytteltonI never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14. Votes: 0
Melanie LaurentNature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom. Votes: 0
Donald L. HicksOne of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them. Votes: 0
Marion Zimmer BradleySome people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaI've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met. Votes: 0
Levon HelmIf History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. Votes: 0
Lucien FebvreDon't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson. Votes: 0
Alan CohenOne of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do. Votes: 0
Gretchen RubinHistory provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward. Votes: 0
Jim LeachWe have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons. Votes: 0
Mariah CareyThe lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings. Votes: 0
Robert StoneEven bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better. Votes: 0
Jeff RaikesSometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons. Votes: 0
Gabrielle BernsteinWe either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both. Votes: 0
Anodea JudithIt's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them. Votes: 0
John WoodenPart of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way. Votes: 0
Jeff BezosSometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know. Votes: 0
Amy PoehlerMost of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies Votes: 0
Bob HopeLife is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! Votes: 0
Sir David Baird, 1st BaronetGo learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else. Votes: 0
Roselyn SanchezI started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing. Votes: 0
Esa-Pekka SalonenIn an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouUltimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. Votes: 0
Twyla TharpSpeech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance Votes: 0
Harry Dean StantonThe teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillBe open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday. Votes: 0
Ellen DeGeneresSpeech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance. Votes: 0
Harry Dean StantonReagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons. Votes: 0
Eugene JareckiThe determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons. Votes: 0
James A. BaldwinMy father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons. Votes: 0
Roger MooreEvery dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillIt takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. Votes: 0
Jesse Lauriston LivermoreSo many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth. Votes: 0
Marion Dudley CranEvery one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give. Votes: 0
Shakti GawainHistory never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up. Votes: 0
Paul RusesabaginaOne of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness. Votes: 0
Romany MalcoLook, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs. Votes: 0
Bill O'ReillyIf things are easy for us, then they are not lessons, but things we already know. Votes: 0
Louise HayAll you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoFor the lessons one fails to learn during peacetime, one pays a high price in war. Votes: 0
Karl DönitzBe proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons. Votes: 0
Wallace StegnerA walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonSolitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraIt looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons. Votes: 0
Prince PhilipI'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side Votes: 0
Kelly ClarksonEveryone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. Votes: 0
Puff DaddyStorms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderEducation never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleThe lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieOne of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good. Votes: 0
Joe RoganIf life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction. Votes: 0
Scott TurowIf life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction. Votes: 0
Scott TurowPeople are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons. Votes: 0
SelenaBut presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. Votes: 0
Sidney BlumenthalPerspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn. Votes: 0
Alexis HurleyNo moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience. Votes: 0
Robert GreeneNo whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons. Votes: 0
Iyanla VanzantFailure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need. Votes: 0
Brian TracyEverything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. Votes: 0
Al JourgensenI got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Votes: 0
Bernie WorrellWhen there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons. Votes: 0
Jerome Isaac FriedmanI'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned Votes: 0
Carrie UnderwoodSometimes, you've got to forget life's lessons, trust your heart and give 'mistake' a second chance. Votes: 0
Adwitiya BorahNaturally, when life's lessons knock at the door of our life, happiness can be momentarily obscured. Votes: 0
Michael BeckwithI take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy! Votes: 0
Kim CoatesA judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldLife is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. Votes: 0
Dan MillmanThe person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. Votes: 0
Louise Hayif there is something to say about yourpast,there must be some lessons to write down too. Votes: 0
lity munshiTime as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all. Votes: 0
PericlesIf the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons. Votes: 0
Pierre BourdieuRemember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it. Votes: 0
Ted CruzYeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons. Votes: 0
Andrew MasonI've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures. Votes: 0
Brian SelznickThere are no mistakes in life" he answered. "Just lessons. Make sure you learn from this one. Votes: 0
Robin Wayne BaileyIt's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character. Votes: 0
Cassia LeoSimplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons Votes: 0
Sigurd F. OlsonThat's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them. Votes: 0
Cecelia AhernI've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to. Votes: 0
Chris TuckerI started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School. Votes: 0
Jacqueline EmersonHip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop. Votes: 0
Russell Simmonssooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most. Votes: 0
Cherie Carter-ScottBusiness wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made. Votes: 0
Kiana TomMy lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. Votes: 0
Ted DansonI try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go. Votes: 0
Gillian JacobsThere was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. Votes: 0
Ernie IsleyI saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons. Votes: 0
Mark SallingHow many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year! Votes: 0
Thomas Wentworth HigginsonI love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time. Votes: 0
Miranda KerrI started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. Votes: 0
Oksana BaiulBeware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass! Votes: 0
Ron McKeownI am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government. Votes: 0
Laurent FabiusWhen my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons. Votes: 0
Amy ChuaThree life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you. Votes: 0
Elizabeth ScottWhether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons. Votes: 0
Amelie MauresmoI was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. Votes: 0
Robert QuineHe who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure. Votes: 0
MoliereI can prolly teach you lessons There's so much more that meets the eye upon your first impressions. Votes: 0
G-EazyLearn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others. Votes: 0
Abu Ammaar Yasir QadhiThere are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder. Votes: 0
Dan MillmanWhat a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeSome of the best lessons come from a bad day and there's a few we can learn from today. Votes: 0
Greg ChappellAll the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy. Votes: 0
Adam JohnsonWell, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again. Votes: 0
Andrea CorrOne of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton. Votes: 0
Calvin CoolidgeThat is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path. Votes: 0
Emma CampionIt is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerWhat's wisdom if not the will to learn the lessons, which Nature puts in one's way at every step? Votes: 0
Irina SerbanIn order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on. Votes: 0
Jake GyllenhaalOne of my biggest lessons has been to be easier on myself and not make things such a big deal. Votes: 0
Renee MarinoI think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonThe teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardI prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Votes: 0
Henry RollinsGod's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us. Votes: 0
Susan CrandallIf time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. Votes: 0
W. H. AudenI never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them. Votes: 0
Charlie WattsThose lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years. Votes: 0
John SculleyAs a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother. Votes: 0
Penelope CruzI took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13. Votes: 0
Marion CotillardI met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him. Votes: 0
Sophie CalleMy childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. Votes: 1 Bill Cosby
One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons. Votes: 4 Christopher Lee
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. Votes: 3 Sheena Easton
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. Votes: 2 Moby
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. Votes: 4 Al Jourgensen
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. Votes: 2 Les Brown
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. Votes: 4 Rosabeth Moss Kanter
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. Votes: 4 Warren Christopher
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. Votes: 1 Niki Taylor
I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community. Votes: 3 Brother Ali
Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better. Votes: 3 Jeff Raikes
We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people Votes: 3 Bryan Hilferty
Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy. Votes: 3 Mac Thornberry
I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. Votes: 6 Julius Erving
Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve. Votes: 1 Patsy Kensit
I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog! Votes: 1 Jane Siberry
Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be. Votes: 4 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
when you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The most important thing is recognizing, accepting and learning the lessons out of the lessons. just ponder! Votes: 3 Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. Votes: 2 Orison Swett Marden
In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks. Votes: 3 Li Keqiang
Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know? Votes: 1 Bristol Palin
The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up! Votes: 4 Israelmore Ayivor
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. Votes: 2 Walter Dean Myers
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Votes: 3 Wallace Stegner
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.' Votes: 1 Mike Love
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. Votes: 3 Al Franken
Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons. Votes: 1 Bobby Brown
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing. Votes: 2 Kimberly Caldwell
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Votes: 1 Wallace Stegner
You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work. Votes: 1 Anton du Beke
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.' Votes: 2 Mike Love
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind. Votes: 3 Renata Adler
I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten. Votes: 4 Alex Winston
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments. Votes: 2 Alain Ducasse
I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need. Votes: 1 Jennifer Grey
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining. Votes: 3 Ed Miliband
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. Votes: 4 Judy Collins
Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life. Votes: 2 Marg Helgenberger
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. Votes: 1 Ray Bradbury
The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in. Votes: 1 Bobby Orr
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach. Votes: 6 Shania Twain
When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.' Votes: 2 Jeff Foxworthy