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Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. -- Al Jourgensen
I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader. -- Rick Scott
Don't let hard lessons harden your heart. -- Carlos A. Rodriguez
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better. -- Charlie Munger
A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. -- Ouida
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have. -- Gwen Bristow
Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true. -- David James
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age. -- Ted Dekker
One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control. -- John Bytheway
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory. -- Hilaire Belloc
Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy. -- Mac Thornberry
I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need. -- Jennifer Grey
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -- Vern Law
It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson. -- Mike Rogers
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. -- Donna Tartt
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal. -- William Kempe
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock. -- Mick Mars
When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture. -- Sophia Bush
Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it. -- Lawrence Taylor
I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way. -- Trey Songz
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people. -- Georg Solti
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it. -- Boris Yeltsin
My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.' -- Dana Fox
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. -- Al Franken
In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy. -- Zoey Deutch
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. -- Michael Moore
When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better. -- Christopher Walken
I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way. -- Kajol
You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way. -- Taylor Swift
A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life. -- Lord Chesterfield
In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late. -- Taylor Swift
I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten. -- Don Williams

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