Life Lesson Quotes

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

“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.”

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

“The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.”

“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”

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

“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

“Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.”

“The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.”

“What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.”

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

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

“Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“You're still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude”

“Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”

“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.”

“Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.”

“Those who own much have much to fear.”

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

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

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