These life lesson quotes will inspire you.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging life lesson quotes, life lesson sayings, and life lesson proverbs.
Inspirational Life Lesson Quotes
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Don’t waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn’t a blessing – it was a lesson.” ~ Paula White
- “Pause and remember – Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!” ~ Jennifer Young
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“A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.” ~ Dan Rather
- “Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don’t complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.” ~ Warren W. Wiersbe
- “The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” ~ Tom Bodett
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“Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.” ~ Ze Frank
- “Don’t run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.” ~ Louise Hay
- “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” ~ Les Brown
- “I’m grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned” ~ Carrie Underwood
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~ John Wooden
- “The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.” ~ Liam Payne
- “The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life is here to learn different lessons at different times, that good and bad experiences are only the perceptions of man. After all, some of your worst experiences have truly been your best. They’ve sculpted you, trained you, developed within you a sensitivity, and set you in a direction that reaches out to impact your ultimate destiny.” ~ Tony Robbins , Life lesson quotes faith
- “This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!” ~ Sivananda
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“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.” ~ Bill Gates
- “There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead, they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
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“Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.” ~ Shakti Gawain
- “You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” ~ Robin Williams
- “The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.” ~ David O. McKay , Life lesson quotes home
- “Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.” ~ Denis Waitley
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“There is no wealth but life.” ~ John Ruskin
- “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” ~ Irving Berlin
- “Life’s a university that’ll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn” ~ T. D. Jakes
- “One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.” ~ Romany Malco
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“Life is a long lesson in humility.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.” ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar , Life lesson quotes love - “I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.” ~ Charles R. Schwab
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“Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.” ~ Krishna Das
- “I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.” ~ Judith McNaught
- “I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly” ~ Peter Cook
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“Share your knowledge and you become immortal.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically – that there are things we can break that our parents can’t fix.” ~ Robert Breault
- “I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.” ~ Laozi
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“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ~ Helen Keller
- “It’s always better to be real.” ~ Selena Gomez
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Our lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us to attend to our emotional selves and to learn new ways of being in the world. Although many of our losses are painful, they encourage our gains. The lesson life is trying to teach us is that, regardless of the challenges and changes in the physical world, we will abide in peace by aligning ourselves with our inner changelessness. The power of God in us is more than equal to any moment-no matter what it brings. We live in a loving, supportive universe that is always saying yes to us.” ~ Susan L. Taylor
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“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” ~ John Dryden
- “When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… It’s a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.” ~ Patrick Swayze
- “Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.” ~ Twyla Tharp
- “This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn’t behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development.” ~ Edgar Cayce
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“Build what you want to see in the world.” ~ Jack Dorsey
- “The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.” ~ Henry L. Stimson
- “Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.” ~ Wilferd Peterson
- “Focus and simplicity…once you get there, you can move mountains.” ~ Steve Jobs
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“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” ~ John Wooden
- “Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.” ~ Billie Jean King
- “I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.” ~ Julianne Malveaux
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“Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don’t get into public service.” ~ Sean Hannity
- “We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.” ~ Sheena Easton
- “The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.” ~ Joshua Nkomo
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“To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.” ~ John Milton
- “Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they’ve forgotten the hero.” ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- “And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is a lesson we all need – to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.” ~ Katharine Drexel
