Quotes about Lesson

Jesus gave a vivid object lesson his last night with the disciples by washing their feet, like a servant. Parents know the self-giving principle by instinct as they pour their energies into their self-absorbed children. Volunteers in soup kitchens and hospices and mission projects learn this lesson by doing.* What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

Humility is always the hardest lesson for a Prince Warrior to learn

So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep.

Success always comes at a price. That is a lesson I learned a long time ago. My father taught me that a person can pay now and play later, or he can play now and pay later. Either way, he is going to pay.

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.

Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.

God had never withheld love to teach me a lesson.

With the right attitude, a failure can be converted into a lesson and a stepping-stone for future success.

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul.

Evil is not a power; it is ignorance and misuse of good. The hater is he who has failed to do the lesson of Love correctly, and he suffers in consequence