Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities. Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought. Read this book.
I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.
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.
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
It's always better to be real.
Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.
Never resist a generous impulse.
I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.
The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.
It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.
All life is a pattern. . . but we can not always see the pattern when we are part of it.
If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.
Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. Money and jobs will come and go. Live long enough and your health and body will change. It goes with the territory of being human. The fact that you are still here gives you an advantage. Don't look back. Look straight ahead!! Decide to use all of your knowledge, skills, experiences and your life lessons from your mistakes, defeats and setbacks, to start over again. Life changes. You may not have the same life as before, but you can still enjoy your life!
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.