Lesson Quotes
1607 quotes by 1160 authors
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In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself.…
— Nancy Gibbs
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One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold…
— Lottie Moon
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The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of…
— K.P. Yohannan
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It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an…
— LZ Granderson
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God is teaching you a Lesson of Victory.
— Bo Sanchez
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A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do…
— Louis Auchincloss
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The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
— Philip Wylie
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It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of…
— J.M.G. Le Clézio
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Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.
— Joan Walsh Anglund
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Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re…
— Yvon Chouinard
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their…
— Louis Nizer
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics,…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged;…
— Bear Grylls
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Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are…
— Alain de Botton
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The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced…
— Elinor Lipman
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Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes?
— Zach Braff
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To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson…
— Thad Matta
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Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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