#Life Lesson Quotes

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

“A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”

“Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.”

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

“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.”

“Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

“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.”

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

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

“Always drink upstream from the herd.”

“Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.”

“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”

“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.”

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

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

“It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.”

“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.”

“Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.”

“Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.”

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

“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”

“Don't squat with your spurs on.”

“Never miss a chance to shut up”

“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.”