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“Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.”

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

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Author:Aristophanes

“Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.”

Sometimes Learning Lessons Valuable

Book:The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change

Source: The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change

“in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.”

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Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.”

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Author:Gwen Bristow

“Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.”

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Author:Marion Dudley Cran

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

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Author:B. B. King

“In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

“May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.”

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Book:Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

Source: Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

“It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.”

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Book:The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

“Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.”

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Author:Katharine Graham

“Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.”

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Author:Thomas S. Monson

“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours”

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Author:Melody Beattie

“To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.”

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Author:Bruce Catton

“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.”

“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.”

“Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”

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Author:Tryon Edwards

“I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.”

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Book:River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

“What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.”

“Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.”

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Author:Fiona Wood

“People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.”

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Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one”

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Author:Bobby Fischer

“Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“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.”

“Patience is the First Lesson.”

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Author:Thomas T. Riley

“Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.”

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Author:Bob Proctor

“How many lessons there are and how little they are taken”

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Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.”

“In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

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Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.”

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Book:A Choice of Ornaments

Source: A Choice of Ornaments

“One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.”

Source: The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work

“It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.”

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Author:Cathy Lee Crosby

“...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.”

“When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.”

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Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.”

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Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.”

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Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

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