Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lev Grossman

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

Patti Davis

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Mark Lawrence

Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

Michael Caine

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

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 Smith, Jr.

The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.

Herb Kelleher

I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Become someone's hero.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never resist a generous impulse.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Jessica Lange

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Jennifer Lawrence

It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone.

Jennifer Lawrence

You look how you look

Jake T. Austin

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

Jessye Norman

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

Christine Taylor

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

Edward Bach

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Jose Marti

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

Mandy Moore

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

James Russell Lowell

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.

Sheena Easton

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.

Niki Taylor

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.

Henry Rollins

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Mike White

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.