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Valuable Life Lesson Quotes To Share

Some of the most important life lesson quotes are learned the hard way.

Sometimes, it is best to learn from the experiences of others instead of going through things yourself. Wherever you are in life, it pays to learn from those who have the experience to teach. The more you learn, the better person you become. You’ll avoid mistakes and focus more of your energy on succeeding in life.

We’ve collected some of the most intriguing and captivating lessons learned in life from great men and women. Read them, reflect and learn from them.

Quotes About Life Lessons

Short cuts make long delays.
J.R.R. Tolkien

It’s not the load that weighs you down; it’s how you carry it.
C.S. Lewis

A comfort zone is a wonderful place, but nothing ever grows there.
Unknown

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope

You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.
Maxwell Maltz

life lesson quotes.

Knowledge is King Quotations

Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
Unknown

So far, you’ve survived 100% of your bad days. This, too, shall pass.
Unknown

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Failure is a lesson learned. Success is a lesson applied.
Unknown

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.
Zig Ziglar

You only lose what you cling to.
Buddha

Seek to be worth knowing rather than well known.
Unknown

Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Unknown

To be successful, you must act big, think big, and talk big.
Aristotle Onassis

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.
Chris Colfer

You gotta stop watering dead plants.
Unknown

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Your time is limited.

Valuable Learnings

What to do with a mistake – recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
Dean Smith – More Dean Smith Quotations

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou

Be like a tree. Let the dead leaves drop.
Rumi

It’s the will, not the skill.
Unknown

Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
Thich Nhat Hanh

I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.
Drew Barrymore

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you’ Not much.
Jim Rohn

We all make mistakes, how we correct them is what makes all the difference between success and failure.
Zane Baker

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.
Unknown

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
Paulo Coelho

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Life Lesson Quotes

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.
Roy T. Bennett

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
Chico Xavier

Some of life’s best lessons are learned at the worst times.
Ani DiFranco

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan

Doubt is wisdom. People are dangerous when they are certain that their cause is just and their facts are right.
Paulo Coelho

‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.
Chico Xavier

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Al Franken

The will not the skill.

Experience – A Hard Teacher

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Haruki Murakami

Some people come in your life as blessings; others come in your life as lessons.
Mother Teresa

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
Thomas L. Holdcroft

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson afterward.
Vernon Saunders Law

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at the time you beg forgiveness.
Toba Beta

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

“You’re going to be happy,” said Life, “But, first, I’ll make you strong.”
Unknown

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them ―that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

Don't stop until you're proud image.

Hard Work Sayings

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.
Estee Lauder

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.
Lev Grossman

If there are things you don’t like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
Dave Thomas

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Denis Waitley

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
Peter Shaffer

Good times become good memories, and bad times become good lessons.
Unknown

Life happens at the level of events, not words.
Alfred Adler

God helps them that help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Italian proverb

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin

Comfort zone quotation.

Teachable Moments Quotes

Here are some of our favorite life lesson quotes.

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
John D. Rockefeller – The Richest Person to Ever Live

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah Winfrey

Saddle your dreams before you ride ’em.
Mary Webb

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

Be like a tree; let the dead leaves drop.
Rumi

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Mary Angelou

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…it’s about learning how to dance in the rain!
Unknown

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him, and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson

Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.
Paulo Coelho

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard

Grow through what you go through.
Unknown

Little by little does the trick.
Aesop

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Words of Wisdom

The best things in life are not things.
Ann Landers

Little strokes fell great oaks.
Benjamin Franklin

Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.
Steve Maraboli

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Og Mandino

A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back-you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future.
Jodi Picoult

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.
David Russell

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
Turkish Proverb

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
Saint Augustine

It’s always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia Barr

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
C.S. Lewis

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Steve Jobs

Short Life Lessons Quotes

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

It is not death that a man should bear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius

Be the change you would like to see in the world.
Gandhi

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Ovid

Today is yesterday’s pupil.
Tobias Smollett

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
Howard Ruff

The best way to save face is to keep the bottom half shut.
Unknown

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus

Deliberate often, decide once.
Latin Proverb

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, on the school fees are heavy.
Thomas Carlyle

On Success

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up.
Unknown

The work praises the man.
Irish proverb

The secret of success is the constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

Big shots are little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley

Success is not a doorway, it’s a staircase.
Dottie Walters

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas are lie rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams

The reward of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
Anita DeFrantz

Memorable Quotes on Life

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
Plato

By three methods, we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; And third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius.

Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer

To distance yourself from another, give them unsolicited advice. To become closer, take theirs.
Unknown

Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
Louise Gluck

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like.
Will Rogers

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Suzy Kassem

A ship does not sail with yesterday’s wind.
Louis L’Amour, The Walking Drum

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life-Changing Quotes

These life lessons quotes can change your approach and attitude.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
G.K. Chesterton

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Rob Siltanen

The things that we love tell us what we are.
Thomas Aquinas

Knowing Is not enough; We must apply. Wishing Is not enough; We must do.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales

Creativity Is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Philosophy of Life Sayings

When they close doors on you – buy the building.
Unknown

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake.
Francis Bacon

Live each day as if your life had just begun.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Frederick Nietzsche

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli

Heartwarming Insights

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.
Unknown

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence

Love doesn’t make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand

Inspirational Life Lesson Quotes

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
Paulo Coelho

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.
Romany Malco

The biggest lesson I learned this year is to not force anything; conversations, friendships, relationships, attention, or love. Anything forced is just not worth fighting for; whatever flows flows, what crashes crashes.
Amanda Rose

Remember that life’s greatest lessons are usually learned at the worst times and from the worst mistakes.
Unknown

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown

These life lessons quotes work great for emails, Facebook posts, Instagram captions, Twitter, letters, speeches, and more.

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.

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