Life Lesson Quotes - Page 3

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Money isn't everything, but it's right up there with oxygen.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

...But something worse can happen to the person who is betrayed.""What? What could possibly happen to me that is worse?"The older man stared at the younger, and then said pityingly, "You may learn treachery from it.

I don't appreciate people when they judge someone with their appearance but not their feelings. It feels like they want to rule that person for rest of their life.

Paper tigers quake with fear when a real tiger enters the room.

A Dog can never brag about catching a cat that waited for him.

Poverty is a mental virus, even if one could get a million, the mindset will always kick in.

It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

Leonardo da Vinci

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Leonardo da Vinci

Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

Scylar Tyberius

never say never see what is possible if you never give up

Most people miss their whole lives, you know. Listen, life isn't when you are standing on top of a mountain looking at a sunset. Life isn't waiting at the alter or the moment your child is born or that time you were swimming in a deep water and a dolphin came up alongside you. These are fragments. 10 or 12 grains of sand spread throughout your entire existence. These are not life. Life is brushing your teeth or making a sandwich or watching the news or waiting for the bus. Or walking. Every day, thousands of tiny events happen and if you're not watching, if you're not careful, if you don't capture them and make them COUNT, your could miss it. You could miss your whole life.

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.

What gets measured gets improved.

Robin S. Sharma

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.

To be alive──is Power.

Emily Dickinson

For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.

Violet Haberdasher

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Sarah Addison Allen

And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else, you have to go for it. Which sometimes means taking a risk, even if it's scary. But the thing you want most to happen doesn't stand a chance unless you give it one.

Susane Colasanti

You can't wait around for something to become good, it either is, or isn't.

Toni Aleo

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

Susane Colasanti

We are born to believe We can’t change a thing We can’t, and we never could. But before you believe The things you believeYou must understand To be understood.

John C. O’Callaghan

You see? This is why you don't get mixed up in people's lives. Because the living are messy and complicated, and things end up going to hell one way or another, every time.

Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.

Robin S. Sharma

If someone wanted to have a grudge against me, or didn't agree with my lifestyle, the way I breathed, the space I took up on this planet, they had an open door to 'report' to the powers that be.

Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?

Robert McCammon

never use sarcasm in an email

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Sophie Kinsella

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.

Never Say Never if you know you can do what you love don't give up.

If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it?

We all have the greatest potential. Life is about finding it, embracing it and then learning to be with it in the world without fear of prejudice or judgment.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Teddy Roosevelt

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there

The purpose of life is to survive,to grow,to accept and adapt changes that happens...And addition to human is to exercise his free will, to learn from experience,to make the most of his time,to live well and to reap what he sow in this life.

Balenti Peco Ramos

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Devdutt Pattanaik

Smile more.Laugh more.Love more.Shine more.

Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell.

Matshona Dhliwayo

What others think of you doesn't matter as much as what you think of yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp

Madeleine L'Engle

Transforming Moment" yes I got it. I Committed. I Tried. I Executed. I Failed. I Motivated. I Succeed.

sivaprakash Sidhu

Never test good people because they are like diamonds. when you hit them, they will not break but they will only slip away from your life

Moywaywa

Destination is never a final one.Once you reach you plan for the next.

The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.

J Raymond

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

So, Don't Mix Up Your Way To Write Your Life Story With Others, Then Definitely It Won't Sell. You Only Know What You're Encountering In Every Single Step. Everyone's Shoes Won't Fit In Your Feet....

Muhammad Imran Hasan

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.

Elizabeth Gaskell

REBELby Tatyana DiasI have the might of separating the fight between darkness and light.With ashes that surpasses my sight, crime in time slashes, isolating my rights.I speak with my eyes, and visualize with my mind.I'm on a quest that has left me possessed and stressed 'cause I envy the blessed and pity the depressed.You can whip me, strip me, crucify me to a cross; my imagination within my deepest destination will not fall!

Susane Colasanti

We don't need to start our dream from the top all we need is to make a first step where we are standing right now and say my journey starts now

Subingsubing Dondy

You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.

At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

Maybe I was crazy to consider it, but I’d always hoped that if I were a good enough girl, if I did everything right, if I said the right things or said nothing at all—I thought my parents would change their minds. I thought they would finally listen when I tried to talk. I thought they would give me a chance. I thought they might finally love me. I always had that stupid hope.

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