Lessons Quotes

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."

I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

It's nice to look back on your life and see things as lessons, and not regrets.

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.