Lessons Learned Quotes

“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"
That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?"
No," Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite!”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Never run from the enemy, tackle them”
― Victoria Addino

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Hearts will break and people will hurt you, darling.” Her mother said. “But when you let those people control your outlook on the life, you only allow them to have a greater hold on your happiness. Once you accept the fact that every day is a new day to begin again, life becomes a much easier path to walk.”
― Courtney Giardina, Holding on to Georgia

“And I realized that some things just don't work that way. Life isn't a fairy tail. And the person you fall in love with doesn't always love you back. But that's ok, because at the very least it makes you stronger. And brings you to a place where you can fall in love with yourself. And that to me is more important than finding someone that only makes you complete when they are around, It's really about Finding the person that will teach you ALL the lessons you need to know ...so that you feel complete all by yourself. ”
― Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading

“If you haven't said 'I love you' to someone today, do it. You won't always be happy, but you should try to be. Don't be too afraid of germs. Those people have no fun. Remember to look around sometimes. You might see something you haven't seen before or at the very least avoid being hit by a flying object. Speaking of flying objects, don't spend your life looking for extraterrestrial life, unless you work for NASA. Remember that you always have to cooperate with someone. Life is an endless negotiation. Play fair. Stay out of jail. Don't live in the past. Eat breakfast. It really is the most important meal of the day. Try to make new friends, even when you think you're too old to do that. ...And finally, remember this" 'Yes' is always a better work than 'no'. Unless, of course, someone has just asked you to commit a felony.”
― Lisa Lutz

“When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue”
― Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos, Living in Light, Love & Truth: You Can Positively Change Your Life by Living in Light, Love, & Truth-Awareness + Reflection + Learning + Application = Wisdom

“Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value!”
― Victoria addino

“Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“....You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually they'll eat away at you. But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. And this is what I figured out on my own: Over the course of a lifetime, people change, but not as much as you'd think. Nobody really grows up.”
― Lisa Lutz

“Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it away.”
― Damien Rice, Damien Rice -- O: Guitar TAB/Vocal

“Even though I'm a Jedi, I am not invincible.”
― Jude Watson, The Dangerous Rescue

“Never submit we are all equals”
― Heather Nelson, The Albino Redwoods

“Tengo la impresión de estar perdiendo el interés por todo. Tal vez se deba a que estoy creciendo o que la vida se esta volviendo más asquerosa.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Only people can change people”
― Michele Amitrani, Omnilogos

“It has been said that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. It is equally true, in some cases, that when the resistant student is drained and disheartened, the lesson will finally make sense and take hold.”
― Rob Ryan Sullivan, A Trek Within: Embracing Unexpected Truths

“My biggest lesson about writing was when I was a little girl and would overhear adults say "one day I will write a book". When I would see them again, sometimes several years later, they repeated the same thing, without any action towards writing their book. I didn't want to be like them and learned the basic rule of creating is to just do it. Therefore, when I wanted to be a writer, I did just that. I wrote and my first book and figured out self-publishing in 2010. It was a learning curve but also an amazing journey. Thankfully, the people I met as a little girl taught me this very important life lesson.”
― Alyscia Cunningham

“The past is a place we can visit but cannot live there.”
― Sam Izad, Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas

“Through trauma, I learned to swiftly place space between myself and those whose words did not align with their actions.
For that, I am grateful.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“When it comes to lessons of life, we are often poor students.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“When I turned 15, my father let me drive our old ’66 Chevy Impala and I was finally able to get a “real” job – at a fast-food restaurant. Where else at that age? I never stopped working. For most of my life, I worked a good 15-20 hours a day, for years, and I made the mistake of thinking I was damn near invincible, only to eventually find out I wasn’t.”
― Scott C. Holstad