INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : EXPERIENCE

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : EXPERIENCE

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Leonard Huxley

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. Mark Twain

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas,
but for scars. Elbert Hubbard

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Sometimes you have to do a lot of things to determine what it is you don't want to do. Along the way you pick up a lot of experience. Wally Amos

A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. Bernard M. Baruch

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. Tom Brokaw

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. Marilyn Monroe

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along". Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. Benjamin Disraeli

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. John Wooden

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. Denis Waitley

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. Oprah Winfrey

If you focus on the possible when you experience difficult situations, YOU CAN positively change your outlook, reduce your stress, and concentrate on achieving things that otherwise may not have been possible. Catherine Pulsifer

As a woman I've always felt that as we get older we get better. You come to terms with yourself, through emotional experiences and the simple wisdom that comes with age. Linda Evans

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. George Washington

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret. Leo Buscaglia

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. Jonathan Swift

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. Lou Holtz

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. George Harrison