Experience Quotes

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams

"You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
Ethel Barrymore

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

Experience is by far the best teacher."
Mae West

"All life is an experiment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald."
Proverb

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
Stan Smith

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."
Pete Seeger

"The experience of a single misfortune taught him a valuable lesson and challenged him to reprogram his saving, and spending habits."
Dean Pennicott

"This is a book about a life that money won't buy. It grew out of the authors and others experience."
Catherine Pulsifer, from The Simpler Life

"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul."
Charles Buxton "Our online home business is developing and maintaining our websites. This website is one of them. It shares our experiences, and hopefully gives people encouragement that yes, you can live a simple life and work at home, and earn an income."
Catherine & Byron Pulsifer, from Our Home Based Business

"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself."
Alfred Sheinwold

"I kept my positive attitude and turned a negative experience into an opportunity."
Catherine Pulsifer, from A Negative Experience an Opportunity?

"Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experiences to savor, not to endure."
Author Unknown, from Dear Bertha

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"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, from See The Positive in All Situations

"There are far too many individuals who never get to experience the joy of attaining their desires because other people's influence has significantly (and sometimes negatively) affected their crucial decisions."
Michael Lee

"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
William Faulkner

"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience."
Laurence J. Peter

"We experience less stress with this way of life, a simpler way of life. You see, truly the only stress we have is the stress we put on ourselves."
Catherine Pulsifer, from But How Much Money Are You Making?

"Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best."
Spanish Proverb

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

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

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

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires."
Abigail Van Buren

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
C.S. Lewis

"The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

"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, from Difficult Situation as a Present?

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Auguste Rodin

"Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though 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