Buddy Rice Quotes

One can never tell what will be the result of faithful service rendered, nor do we know when it will come back to us or to those with whom we are associated. The reward may not come at the time, but in dividends later. I believe we will never lose anything in life by giving service, by making sacrifices, and doing the right thing.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

You live, you learn.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.

Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.

Mistakes were made, so I learned by my mistakes.

Every person learns with time and experience.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

Sometimes having a big amount of time is a gift, because by the time you're at the end of the run you feel like you've figured it out finally or discovered everything you can about the character. Sometimes that's not the case.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish