Have you ever been in a situation that you regret your decisions? Probably a lot of times. In this life, making mistakes and bad decisions is inevitable. We often turn a situation into worse because of what we’ve decided. However, it is during those times that we realize what we did wrong and that’s how we learn. That’s how life teach us a lesson.
Life lessons are what we get in decision-makings. Regret cannot be avoided but it’s how we respond or change according to what we learned is what important. Life lesson quotes can be helpful to find inspiration to achieve success in life. Don’t blame yourself too much. Learn from these quotes about lessons in life.
- Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.-Chico Xavier
- Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.-Maya Angelou
- If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.-Lev Grossman
- The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.-Peter Shaffer
- Only the dead have seen the end of war.-Plato
- We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.-Santosh Kalwar
- People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.-Roy T. Benett
- Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.-Roy T. Benett
- Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.-Steve Maraboli
- Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.-Mary Oliver
- Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.-Roy T. Benett
- Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.-Roy T. Benett
- The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.-Roy T. Benett
- Lost time is never found again.-Benjamin Franklin
- Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.-Roy T. Benett
- Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.-Dalai Lama
- Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.-Roy T. Benett
- Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.-George Bernard Shaw
- Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.-Roy T. Benett
- He that respects himself is safe from others.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.-Roy T. Benett
- Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.-Les Brown
- Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.-Roy T. Benett
- So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.-E.A. Bucchianeri
- Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.-Roy T. Benett
- Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.-Roy T. Benett
- All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.-Ming-Dao Deng
- Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.-Roy T. Benett
- Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn’t make you nice, it just makes you a liar.-Jenny O’Connell
- It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.-Anonymous
- Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.-Roy T. Benett
- ….talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.-Patrick Süskind
- Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.-Roy T. Benett
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.-Auguste Rodin
- Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.-Roy T. Benett
- People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.-Paulo Coelho
- If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.-Roy T. Benett
- Life isn’t sure, life is scary, It doesn’t mean you stop living it.-Susan May Warren
- Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.-Roy T. Benett
- Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.-Roy T. Benett
- When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.
- You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.
- Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.
- Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
- We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.-Roy T. Benett
- Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.-Roy T. Benett
- Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.-Vivian Komori
- No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.-Haruki Murakami
Motivational Life Lesson Quotes and Sayings
- The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.-C. JoyBell C.
- Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.-Roy T. Benett
- There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.-Judith McNaught
- And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.-Douglas Coupland
- This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt heartache. You can’t have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can’t know what it’s like to feel holy until you know what it’s like to feel really fucking evil. And you can’t be birthed again until you’ve died.-Kelly Cutrone
- A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it’s the most painful thing you’ll ever have to do and that you’ve ever done. But what’s yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it’ll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won’t have to put it back in the sky again.-C. JoyBell C.
Quotes about Life Lessons and Mistakes
- Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.-Roy T. Benett - Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.-Roy T. Benett
- Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.-Roy T. Benett
- In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.-Haruki Murakami
- Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.-Roy T. Benett
- Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don’t take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.-Roy T. Benett
- You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.-Mandy Hale
- Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.-Roy T. Benett
- The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.-Roy T. Benett
Short Quotes on Life Lesson
- You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.-Roy T. Benett
- In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.-Abraham Lincoln
- God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.-Voltaire
- No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.-Winston Churchill
- Today is life–the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.-Dale Carnegie
- “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.-Alexander Graham Bell
- An unexamined life is not worth living.-Socrates
- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You can never plan the future by the past.-Edmund Burke
- Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.-Dennis P. Kimbro
- In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.-Robert Frost
- The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.-W. M. Lewis
- 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 quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.-Vince Lombardi
- Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?-Robert Frost
- The problem is that when you get it, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.-Jimmy Connors
Quotes about Lessons in Life
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.-Eleanor Roosevelt
- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.-Friedrich Nietzsche
- I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.-Thomas Carlyle
- I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.-C.G. Jung
- Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.-John Gardner
- I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.-Harold Kushner
- The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.-Eleanor Roosevelt
- Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.-Pete Seeger
- Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.-William Faulkner
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.-Lao Tzu
- There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.-Friedrich Nietzsche
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.-Victor Hugo
- You can never plan the future by the past.-Edmund Burke
- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.-Friedrich Nietzsche
- In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.-Robert Frost
- It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.-Haruki Murakami