Quotes and Sayings About Lessons
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The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
-- A. J. Muste -
First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.
-- A.M. Jenkins -
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
-- Aaron Carter -
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
-- Abdallah II -
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-- Abigail Adams -
Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
-- Al Jourgensen -
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
-- Alan Bennett -
Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
-- Alan Cohen -
It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of ***** which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
-- Albert Einstein -
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
-- Alberto Juantorena -
... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.
-- Alexander Jablokov -
In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was Evor." "Strange that they do not resemble each other." "I have a good imagination." "Ah, in that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?
-- Alexandra Ivy -
That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.
-- Alexis Denisof -
There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.
-- Alfred Austin -
I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.
-- Alison Hawthorne Deming -
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
-- Allyson Schwartz -
I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.
-- Amy Chua -
Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.
-- Amy Grant -
When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.
-- Amy Lee
