Quotes about Lessons
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
— Rowan Williams
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
— Paulo Coelho
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
— Edmund Burke
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
— Laurence Sterne
Life is full of choices, ma'am. Most we live once, then move on and forget. But others" - he narrowed his eyes - "we live a thousand times over and remember for the rest of our days. What's impostant is knowin' how to tell 'em apart. And then decidin' if you's willin' to pay the price. 'Cause choices...they always come at a price.
— Tamera Alexander
I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we're going to encounter in our own period of service.
— Thomas Monson
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
Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.
— Drew Barrymore
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
— Aldous Huxley
Errors make excellent projectiles.
— Victor Hugo
The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science.
— Victor Hugo
Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
— Oprah Winfrey