Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Kip Winger

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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.

J. K. Rowling

'-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore.

J. K. Rowling

'It was stupid, thinking it was him, I mean, I knew he was dead' Harry muttered. 'You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him....You know, Harry, in a way you did see your father last night....You found him inside yourself.'

J. K. Rowling

'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.'

J. K. Rowling

'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'

Kirstie Alley

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Mike White

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

John Piper

I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

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.

Johnny Mathis

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

John Wooden

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

Maya Angelou

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Lech Walesa

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

Megan Fox

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Maya Angelou

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.

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.

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.

Liam Payne

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

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.

Mandy Moore

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

Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Richelle Mead

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

Richard L. Evans

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

Zac Efron

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

Ze Frank

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

Tennessee Williams

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.