Experience Quotes

“Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson

“Don’t just learn something from every experience. Learn something positive.” ~ Allen Neuharth, USA Today Founder

“Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold

“There’s only one thing more painful than than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.” ~ Archibald MacLeish, Poet

Never blame anyone in your life.

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~ Helen Keller

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” ~ Samuel Johnson

Never Regret.

If it’s good, it’s wonderful.

If it’s bad, it’s experience.

“Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.” ~ Matthew Syed

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” ~ John Wooden

“Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.” ~ Unknown

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” ~ Henry Ford

“The wisdom of the wise and the experiences of the ages may be preserved by quotations.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister)

“If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” ~ Charlie Parker (Musician)

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” ~ Oprah Winfrey