Quotes about Lessons

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

You probably think you know...The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

I've learned that everything happens for a reason," the yogi Krishnan told him. "Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.

Our mother had taught us that when the moon was white, reappearing after its absence, it was showing us that what had been hidden could easily become whole again.