100+ Short Quotes About Life Lessons

• Life always offer a second chance, it is called tomorrow

• Make a mistake once and it becomes a lesson. Make the same mistake twice and it becomes a choice.

• Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.

• My life. My choices. My mistakes. My lessons.

• Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s next.

• Some people come in your life as blessings; some come in your life as lessons.

• Happiness will never come to those who don’t appreciate what they already have.

• You have a choice to live your best life every day, no matter the circumstances.

• Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it.

• Remember it’s just a bad day not a bad life.

• Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

• In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life, It Goes On…

• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

• Live your life and forget your age.

• You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

• Every new day is another chance to change your life.

• Spending today complaining about yesterday won’t make tomorrow any better.

• A man who chases two rabbits catches neither.

• All of us have a destination to reach but how we go through the journey makes all the difference.

• Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can’t learn it from art, you can’t learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection.  There is light, and there is shadow.  Everything is in half tint.

• As we grow up, life teaches us hard truths that we need to understand.

• Be careful who open up to. Only a few people genuinely care.  The rest are just curious to have hidden motives.

• Be like a tree. Stay grounded.  Connect with your roots.  Turn over a new leaf.  Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty.  Keep growing.

• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

• Be with those who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.

• Before you act, listen. Before you react, think.  Before you spend, earn.  Before you criticize, wait.  Before you pray, forgive.  Before you quit, try.

• Being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.

• Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

• Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.

• Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.

• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

• Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

• Direction is so much more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast.

• Distance in relationships can cause you to miss someone so much that it helps you to realize how much that persons means to you.

• Don’t allow something to make you feel like you’re not good enough.

• Don’t become too attached to outcomes or beliefs. Remain open to all possibilities and ideas.

• Don’t give up on love, because there is always someone who loves you, even if it’s not the person who was hoping for.

• Don’t let people tell you the sky is the limit, when there’s a footprint on the moon.

• Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems. Look for someone who won’t let you face them alone.

• Don’t lose your present to your past.

• Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

• Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you will look back, and realize they were the big things.

• Every exit has an entry somewhere … Every end has a new beginning … Every dark cloud has a silver lining … Smile and stay healthy. Never leave hope … Life means possibilities.

• Every experience is meant to teach you something new.

• Every one you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind.

• Everything in life is easier when you don’t concern yourself with what everybody else is doing.

• Everything you do now is for your future. Think about that.

• Failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of success.

• Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.

• Give but don’t allow yourself to be used. Love but don’t allow your heart to be abused.  Trust but don’t be naïve.  Listen to others but don’t lose your own voice.

• Give the gift of your absence to those who do not appreciate your presence.

• Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.

• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events.  Small minds discuss people.

• I don’t chase people anymore. I learned that I am here, and I am important.  I am not going to run after people to prove that matter.

• If you are awake you are blessed. Life is a priceless gift, appreciate every minute of it.

• If you want something in life, you must do the work to get it. There are rarely shortcuts.

• In the end people will judge you anyway, so don’t live your life impressing others, live your life impressing yourself.

• It’s better to look back on life and say: “I can’t believe I did that” than to look back and say: “I wish I did that”.

• Keep the faith. The most amazing things in life tend to happen right at the moment you’re about to give up hope.

• Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more of who you are.

• Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

• Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance in the rain.

• Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly.  Love truly.  Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.

• Life is so ironic, it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.

• Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.

• Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.

• Love all. Trust few.  Everything’s real but not everyone’s true.

• Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

• Loyalty is hard to find. Trust is easy to lose.  Actions speak louder than words.

• Make mistakes, take chances, be silly, be imperfect, trust yourself and follow your heart.

• Maturity doesn’t mean age. It means sensitivity, manners and how you react.

• Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

• Never be a prisoner of your past, it was just a lesson not a life sentence.

• Never force anything. Just let it be.  If it’s meant to be, it will be.

• Never give up until you’ve given out all your very best. It’s better to fail trying than wondering what could have happened if you tried.

• Never say you have failed until you have reached your last attempt, and never say it’s your last attempt until you have succeeded.

• Never speak from a place of hate, jealousy, anger or insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips.  Sometimes it’s best to be quiet.

• No matter how many degrees we have or what kind of education we received, there are some things that only life can teach us – lessons that we only learn in the school of life.

• No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

• No matter who tries to teach you lessons about life, you won’t understand it until you go through it on your own.

• No regrets in life. Just lessons learned.

• No relationship is ever a waste of time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you what you don’t want.

• Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.

• Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

• Once your life is expression of your blissfulness, you will not be in conflict with anyone.

• One of the most important things in life is to ignore most of what people say. Watch what they do instead.

• Only foods let compliments get to their head and criticism get to their heart.

• Paths to meaningful life: (1) Use time wisely and well. (2) Love a lifetime of learning.  (3) Nurture your passions.  (4) Transform shyness into social engagement.  (5)  Remake your image.  (6) Become a positive deviant.  (7) Train yourself to become an everyday hero.

• People usually change for two reasons. It’s either they have learnt lot, or they have been hurt a lot.

• Remember that life’s greatest lessons are usually learned at the worst times and from the worst mistakes.

• Reward loyalty with loyalty. I reward disloyalty with distance.

• Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.

• Some of the best things in life are mistakes.

• Some people will have to learn how to appreciate you by losing you.

• Some times in life, your situation will keep repeating itself until you learn your lesson.

• Sometimes life is too hard to be alone and sometimes it is too good to be alone.

• Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we don’t think we needed to know.

• Sometimes the most important life lessons are the ones we end up learning the hard way.

• Sometimes the sad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

• Sometimes there is no next time, no timeouts, and no second chances. Sometime it’s now or never.

• Sometimes things that hurt you most, teach you the greatest lessons of life.

• Sometimes we have to let go of the life we have planned, to have the life that is waiting for us.

• Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.

• Stop expecting loyalty from people who can’t even give you honesty.

• Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are.

• Temporary happiness isn’t worth long term pain.

• The art of being happy is to be satisfied with what you have.

• The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are, but how happy others can be because of you.

• The first step to living the life that you want is leaving the life that you don’t want.

• The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I still have a lot to learn.

• The happiest people do not necessarily have the best things. They simply appreciate the things they have.

• The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the; don’t give up in the middle.

• The secret of being happy is accepting where you are life and making the most out of every day.

• The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

• The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

• The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.

• The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.

• The worst thing in life is attachment. It hurts when you lose it.  The best thing in life is loneliness.  It teaches you everything and when you lose it, you get everything.

• There are two types of paints, one that hurts you and the other that changes you.

• There comes a time when you have to stop remembering your mistakes and move on. No regrets in life just lessons.

• There is a time to be a nice person. And there’s a time to say enough is enough.

• Two things define us; our patience when we have nothing and our attitude when we have everything.

• We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given a life. It’s up to us to make it good or bad.

• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

• When people treat you like they don’t care, believe them.

• When someone sees you at your worst and still thinks you look your best that is someone worth keeping.

• When you fully trust someone without any doubt, you finally get one of two results:  A person for life or a lesson for life.

• You can lie down for people to walk on you and they will still complain that you are not flat enough. Just live your life.

• You can’t do anything well if you don’t believe you can.

• You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

• You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you are not happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy any place.

• You will see other’s true colors when you are no longer beneficial to their life.

• Your life is a result of choices you make. If you don’t like your life it is time to start making better choices.

• Your life is a result of the choices you make … If you don’t like your life it is time to start making better choices.

• Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

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