Quotes on Life Lesson

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

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

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

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 some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did.

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.

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

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.