Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward.… — Jerry I. Porras Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I learned that if you love a boy you are o longer free. The boy may become more important than your own… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense… — Jet Black Copy Share Image
I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound… — Matt Cameron Copy Share Image
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech… — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, for me, I grew up in the Carolinas, and it's our mythology. Those are the characters that we learn about how… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
This has to be your first lesson in sannyas: accept yourself, love yourself, drop all guilt, don't divide yourself. There is nothing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so… — Jason Dohring Copy Share Image
If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
I want to hate you, but I can’t even stay mad at you. (Jericho) You know, I think you’re more in need… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I began to become very infatuated at the creation of my own music rather than someone else's and my piano teacher used… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's… — John McLeod Copy Share Image
“Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it… — Andrew Hollander Copy Share Image
When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out… — Lenore Terr Copy Share Image
On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a… — Bill Austin Copy Share Image
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image