Life lessons can often feel hard-won. You choose what you think is best—or even most exciting—in the moment, only to realize later on that it may not have been the wisest decision after all. And that's okay! The only way we will truly learn or grow is by making mistakes and learning from them. And the following life lesson quotes exhibit just that.Experience is valued for a reason, and you should hold every experience that you've had in life as the most valuable thing. Regardless of whether those experiences taught you something good or bad, they were extremely important for your own growth. The good news about life lessons is that we don't have to go through every little thing in order to learn from them. Hearing other people's stories of things they wish they'd have known sooner or things that brought them the most joy is a wonderful way to not only sculpt your own choices, but to honor their lives and your relationship in them.If you're looking for words of wisdom that offer insight into growing through adversity, understanding life's ups and downs, navigating change and moving forward, then you've come to the right place. Continue reading for the 125 best 'life lesson' quotes that are sure to provide inspiration and motivation for anyone who feels a bit lost.Related: 75 Curiosity Quotes for Those Who Are Itching To Know More
125 Best Life Lesson Quotes
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"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself." — Alice Walker"Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You’re not suddenly more happy, wealthy or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you’re at peace with yourself. Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect but about seeing life as it was meant to be." — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross"Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice." — Fawn Weaver"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. Bennett"I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them." — Joe Abercrombie"Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life." — Roy T. Bennett"First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen." — Christopher Paolini"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people." — Roy T. Bennett"You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is." — Red Haircrow"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. Bennett"How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others." — June Ahern"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." — Ralph Waldo Emerson"All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed—the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?" — Diane Lane"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey." — Roy T. Bennett"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"Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are." — Roy T. Bennett"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." — Maya Angelou"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. Bennett"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"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it." — Roy T. Bennett"Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing." — Paulo Coelho"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it." — C.S. Lewis"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create." — Roy T. BennettKarma Life Lesson Quotes
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"Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life." — Roy T. Bennett"The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you." — Peter Shaffer"Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else's. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own." — Roy T. Bennett"You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth." — Jane Fonda"Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to." — Roy T. Bennett"God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons." — Dolly Parton"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." — Mother Teresa"Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now." — Thich Nhat Hanh"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." — Oprah Winfrey"Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others." — Roy T. Bennett"We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking." — Santosh Kalwar"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it." — Cullen Hightower"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever." — Roy T. Bennett"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." — Maya Angelou"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." — Les Brown"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them." — Anthony Storr"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it." — Irving BerlinRelated: 155 Goals Quotes That Will Help You Turn Your Dreams Into Reality
Heart-Touching Life Lesson Quotes
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"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart." — Roy T. Bennett"We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved." — C. JoyBell C."When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." — Paulo Coelho"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. Bennett"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." — Lao Tzu"To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God." — Jocelyn Soriano"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you." — Shannon Alder"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." — Victor Hugo"Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing." — C. JoyBell C."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." — Niki Taylor"The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society." — Maya Angelou"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection." — Anonymous"There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it." — Maya Angelou"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow." — Swedish proverb"No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins." — Orson Scott Card"I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone." — Robin Williams"When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful." — Roy T. BennettPositive Life Lesson Quotes
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"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them." — Steve Maraboli"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine." — Roy T. Bennett"Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You... Be Free... Share." — Steve Maraboli"Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart." — Roy T. Bennett"I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers—if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door." — Marla Gibbs"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." — Roy T. Bennett"Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger." — Bohdi Sanders"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." — Steve Jobs"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. Bennett"Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost." — Erol Ozan"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble." — Rudyard Kipling"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd." — Rumi"Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities." — Roy T. Bennett"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is." — Hermann Hesse"Do not lie to yourself. 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. Bennett"Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy." — Erol Ozan"Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter." — Roy T. BennettRelated: How To Make a Vision Board, Plus 24 Inspirational Printables To Get You Started
Inspirational Life Lesson Quotes
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"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down." — Roy T. Bennett"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. Bennett"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."Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up, I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices—today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." — Kevyn Aucoin"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"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"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"Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child." — Santosh Kalwar"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"I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money, would deter me from giving the best that there was in me." — Colonel Harland Sanders"Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions." — Dale Carnegie"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying." — Roy T. Bennett"You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed." — John Irving"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not." — Deepak Chopra"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. Bennett"You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun." — Shaun Hick"Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make." — Roy T. BennettLife Lesson Quotes About Moving Forward From Mistakes
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"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." — Salvador Dali"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future." — Swami Sivananda"Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." — Mary Tyler Moore"Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer." — Oprah Winfrey"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"Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster." — Weston H. Agor"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." — Aristotle"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." — Maya Angelou"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." — Eleanor Roosevelt"Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere." — Paulo Coelho"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." — C. S. Lewis"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." — Viktor E. Frankl"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts." — Nikki Giovanni"A man’s most urgent necessity is neither happiness [n]or money. It is wisdom. For it is wisdom that he will need to navigate the turbulent waters of his day-to-day existence without succumbing to the ocean of turmoils or to the empty road of prescriptions." — Kapil Gupta"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." — Plutarch"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." — Johnny Cash"Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle." — James Russell LowellRelated: 125 Discipline Quotes To Keep You Motivated All Year Long
Short Life Lesson Quotes
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced." — Søren Kierkegaard"If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so." — Lev Grossman"Do one thing every day that scares you." — Eleanor Roosevelt"The first duty of love is to listen." — Paul Tillich"I can accept failure—everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying." — Michael Jordan"Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes." — Roy T. Bennett"The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson." — Orison Swett Marden"There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake." — Robert Fripp"And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count—it’s the life in your years." — Abraham Lincoln"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships." — Lauryn Hill"There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved." — George Sand"Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention." — Roy T. Bennett"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart." — Roy T. Bennett"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop." — Rumi"We become what we think about most of the time." — Earl Nightingale"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." — John Lennon"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." — Albert EinsteinRelated: 125 Know-Your-Worth Quotes To Remember How Great You Are
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