Life Lesson Quotations | Page 3

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

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

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

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

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

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

Become someone's hero.

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

Never resist a generous impulse.

Fight fairly. Give generously. Laugh loudly. Love deeply.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

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

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

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

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

Be the first to say, "Hello".

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

Be kinder than necessary.

Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.

Never laugh at anyone's dreams.

Believe in love at first sight.

Every so often, push your luck.

Once a month, go to lunch with someone who knows more about your business than you do.

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

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

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

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

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

Celebrate even small victories.

Plant more flowers than you pick

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

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

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

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

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

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

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

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

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

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.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

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

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

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.

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.

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.