Life Skill Quotes

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

I meditate daily, and I think it's sort of a life skill.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

Having a mentor gives someone a huge advantage in life.

I think it's really important for every young person to work in a kitchen because you learn a life skill.

Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.

Learning how to be calm and centered in any situation is a skill for life, whatever you do.

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.

We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.

It's a life lesson they need to have, a skill everybody needs - to cook.

With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.

Swimming is a life-saving skill, so just the fact that the sport that I love can give so much back to other people - and inspire them to join something that they never thought they could do or go after their dreams - is something that is really special to me.

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.