Everyone has heard a life lesson or two in their lifetime. Whether it’s from a friend, family member, teacher, author or complete stranger, these pieces of wisdom can truly help us navigate our way through life.
And as we travel and gain experience in life, we learn many lessons firsthand. Some lessons we learn the hard way, while others come to us more easily. But no matter how we learn them, life’s lessons are an important part of who we are.
Here are some quotes about life lessons that can teach us and at the same time help us reflect on the things we’ve learned in our own lives.
Life Lesson Quotes
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Short cuts make long delays.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Denis Waitley
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.
David Russell
In three words I can sum up everything I`ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
If you don`t design your own life plan, chances are you`ll fall into someone else`s plan. And guess what they have planned for you` Not much.
Jim Rohn
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.
John Green
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah Winfrey
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller
The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.
Tim Rice
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden
I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Maya Angelou
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
You can build your own things that other people can use. And once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
Steve Jobs
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of others, instead, seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
Our crisis is no longer material; it’s existential, it’s spiritual. We have so much fucking stuff and so many opportunities that we don’t even know what to give a fuck about anymore.
Mark Manson
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
Charles Dickens
Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.
Lisa Ling
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
Dr. Seuss
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Marcus Aurelius
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
Elon Musk
In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker
I am what I am. I don’t worry about anything that I can’t control. That’s a really good lesson in life.
Tom Watson
The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki
The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
Denis Waitley
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw
Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
Regina Brett
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
Lao Tzu
If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.
Lev Grossman
Doubt is wisdom. People are dangerous when they are certain that their cause is just and their facts are right.
Paulo Coelho
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Life changes for the better when we realize that we don’t have to know everything and we don’t have to pretend that we do.
Simon Sinek
It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
Ernie Harwell
You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.
Nassim Taleb
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
All you have to do is pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready.
Paulo Coelho
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
Guy Finley
Your past does not equal your future.
Anthony Robbins
You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.
Jojo Moyes
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard Branson
You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.
Maxwell Maltz
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Herman Hesse
We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
Rick Warren
If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.
Lev Grossman
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Og Mandino
Everyone has a lesson to teach you.
Lex Fridman
Parting Words
We hope you’ve enjoyed these life lessons and quotes as much as we have. It’s amazing how a few words, carefully chosen and artfully assembled, can have the power to change our perspective on life.
It’s important to remember that no one has all the answers, but by learning from those who came before us, we can move forward with purpose and intention.
These quotes about life lessons are not here to tell you what to do or how to live, they exist to serve as food for thought. It’s important to remember that no one has all the answers, but by learning from those who came before us, we can move forward with purpose and intention. Life is yours for the taking, so move so forward and stay true to yourself.
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