We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it's head.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

Life is just experience, whether it's good or bad, whatever you're doing you should learn from it if you've got the right kind of mindset.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'

The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

I learned a priceless lesson and one that everyone can use today - it's never the amount of money we have or haven't; it's always the amount of fear we have to wrestle with to make it through the day.

The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.