Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Cathy Guisewite

Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.

Denis Waitley

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Billie Jean King

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Billie Jean King

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

Brandi Carlile

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

Boomer Esiason

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

Bob Ehrlich

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

Brett Favre

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

Elizabeth Scott

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

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.

Brad Paisley

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

Adam Sandler

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Douglas Coupland

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Amelie Mauresmo

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Debbi Fields

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Douglas MacArthur

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

Anne Bancroft

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Bill Gates

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

Dash Mihok

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

Dar Williams

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Ben Harper

It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

Eva Longoria

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Henry Miller

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Hillary Clinton

Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

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.

Kirstie Alley

You're not going to live your life unscathed.