Quotes of: Important-lesson Keyword

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.

To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

Jack Irons

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.

22 Shelters: Lessons From Letters

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.

Alice Brown's Lessons in the Curious Art of Dating

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, "In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The key to Lincoln's famous employment of humor is not that he failed to appreciate the tragic aspects of human existence, but rather that he felt these with such keeness that some relief was required.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to implement.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The secret of success is this all-powerful creative energy within, which human beings often sleep over throughout their entire lives.

How to be Successful: Powerful Lessons for Success

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.

A Man In A Kilt