Life Lesson Quotes

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Success is outliving your failures

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

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

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.

Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.