Quotes about Lesson
The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.
- Thomas Monson
The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.
- DH Lawrence
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
- Charles Dickens
That's the pint, sir,' interposed Sam; 'out vith it, as the father said to the child, wen he swallowed a farden.
- Charles Dickens
The beer has reminded me that I forgot.
- Charles Dickens
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is a lesson worth learning.
- Oprah Winfrey
The most fundamental lesson that you can take away from Super Soul Sunday is gratitude. Gratitude is its own energy field. When you acknowledge and are grateful for whatever you have, it allows more to be drawn to you and changes the way you experience life. Grace is transformative. The more grateful you are, the more grace mirrors the gratitude that you have. — Oprah
- Oprah Winfrey
The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
- Oprah Winfrey
The lesson of a life can never be its own. Only the witness has power to take its measure. It is lived for the other only.
- Cormac McCarthy
Learn to recognize God's sovereignty. Learn to rejoice in God's pleasure. This was Abraham's first lesson, namely that God, not himself, was the Source.
- Watchman Nee
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
- Bernard of Clairvaux