Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Believe in love at first sight.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Every so often, push your luck.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Celebrate even small victories.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Plant more flowers than you pick

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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.

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Begala

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

Joseph Brodsky

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Nikki Reed

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

Neal A. Maxwell

There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.