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75 Experience Quotes
What do experience quotes and sayings teach us? They portray that life's events never die but form an integral part of our lives that more often than not lead us to make certain types of decisions.
It is also true that experiences can help shape future success especially if some of these experiences are those of past failures where obvious mistakes are eradicated that have prevented moving forward with the attainment of a goal.
Experience is also seen as the best teacher especially when compared to unpracticed educational instruction.
It is our hope that these quotes help you and others by providing encouragement to utilize your life experiences to help shape more robust experiences for the future.
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Marathons are a life-changing experience because they push you to discover the part of yourself that is a warrior.
Tina Sloan, Changing Shoes
Poems of Encouragement
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The experience of planting a garden and watching it grow is truly one of the pleasures of life.
Catherine Pulsifer
Garden Poems
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"A terrific way to reopen our eyes to life's possibilities is to get out
there - literally. Take a plane, train, or automobile and explore."
Sue Ellen Cooper, The Red Hat Society's Laugh Lines
Inspirational Poems
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"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
Poems about Life
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Experience
To demonstrate the experience and expression of Jesus Christ is visible in the extension of love and respect for all other people regardless of their background or lifestyle.
Mary S. Scotsburn
Christian Poems
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
Basil Hume
Easter Poems
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In order to experience the lifelong benefits of a friendship, you must first be a true friend yourself.
Sam Fickinsen
Friendship Poems
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True forgiveness is when you can say ‘Thank you for that experience.
Oprah Winfrey
Forgiveness Quotes
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Only after you have gained life experiences and sufferings can you find your true being.
Fanuel Oweke, Before You Turn 35
Short Quotes
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A family can be many things but over time experience many swings - happy days and sometimes, sad
Catherine Pulsifer, A Family Is
Poems About Family
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With heart full of gratitude, we start experiencing all the love, kindness, compassion and happiness this universe has for us.
Purvi Raniga
Gratitude Quotes
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
William Styron
Poems About Books
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Poems contain much wisdom too written from experiences that are true.
Catherine Pulsifer, Poetry Can
Poems About Poetry
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Thank God for life, with all its endless store of great experiences, of hill and dale, of cloud and sunshine, tempest, snow and hail.
Thomas Durley Landels, At Eighty-Three
Thanksgiving Prayers
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Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?
Tony Robbins
The Weaver Poem
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Look at the experience you have gained even though with your age you're in pain. No sense looking back look ahead and stay on track!
Catherine Pulsifer, Look Ahead
Funny Birthday Poems
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Experience is by far the best teacher.
Mae West
Inspirational Quotes
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Be glad for each new day you get to experience
Catherine Pulsifer, Be Thankful And Give Thanks
Be Thankful Poems
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To truly “know" or notice the sunset, you must allow your experience of the sunset to become a mindful moment.
Jeffrey Brantley
Sunset Quotes
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Experiencing heaven is the most real thing that's ever happened to me. I did not want to come back.
Don Piper
Heaven Poems
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Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild and or a grandparent.
Donald A. Norber
Quotes on Grandparents
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If you wish success in life make...experience your wise counselor
Webster, Success in Life
Poems About Perseverance
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My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.
Kelly Clarkson
Quotes About Clouds
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Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.
Reinhold Messner
Take A Chance Quotes
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Many use the ocean as an analogy to life, calm times, and stormy times. During the calm times, we experience happiness and contentment. But during stormy times, we feel anxiety and fear.
Catherine Pulsifer
Ocean Poems
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Learn from the experience of others - look at their mistakes and failures and apply that knowledge to your life!
Catherine Pulsifer
Lessons Learned In Life

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Your greatest hero or heroine grew through failure and disappointment. Failure is the strength behind all personal experience.
Gillian Stokes, Personal Power
Failure Quotes
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I believe—that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them...
Unknown, I Believe That
I Believe Poems
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In the end, life is about collecting experiences and looking for the lesson and blessing in each one.
Suzy Kassem
Quotes About Blessings
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It’s a big world out there. It would be a shame not to experience it
J. D. Andrews
Poems About Travel
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My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.
Kelly Clarkson
Poems About Clouds
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You’re not 40, you’re eighteen with 22 years experience.
Author Unknown
Funny 40th Birthday
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotes About Character
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But I've learned from sad experience how useless is regret, for the mean things done in anger are the things you can't forget.
Edgar A. Guest, The Deeds of Anger
Poems About Anger
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Frank McCourt
Sky Quotes
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To say goodbye is often hard to do, especially when we have experienced happy times with another person whether that is a friend or another family member.
Byron Pulsifer
Think Of Me
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A man reaching 70 usually has achieved most of such philosophy and wisdom as is likely to be his. Most of life's experiences have by then touched him and made their mark upon him.
Unknown, Forget, Believe, Hope
Wisdom Poems
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There are some experiences in life they haven’t invented the right words for.
Lisa Kleypas
Apology Quotes
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Within each person's life experiences, there is value. There are seeds of some things new that are better, more efficient, or worth tweaking for the betterment of all.
Byron Pulsifer
We Can Always Learn
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"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
Enjoy Life Quotes
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A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard M. Baruch
Retirement Quotes
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Man's experience and trials of life, leads him to remind that he cannot love and care for all with a contented mind.
J. J. Thorne, Sweet Is Contentment
Poems About Contentment
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"With hands-on experience of everything from frugal food to
stone wall pointing, it puts people through their paces, helping
them make the big decision, is it really for me?"
Tracey Smith
Decision Quotes
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It is different with your child's child - experience you now have compiled
Catherine Pulsifer, The First
Poems About Grandchildren
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Wisdom's way will lead you right. Time and experience will disclose
J. J. Thorne
The Heart's Repose
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All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life Quotes
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Sometimes it's not about the win, it's about the experience.
Junnita Jackson
Quotes On Winning
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"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
Stan Smith
Motivational Quotes
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So, turn those negative thoughts to positive thoughts and you will experience a new level of success; it is a success at the very beginning because you believe it will be so.
Byron Pulsifer
Positive Thoughts
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"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."
Pete Seeger
Humorous Quotes
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Whatever you went through in past equipped you for today. What you experience now prepares you for the future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Quotes About The Future
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Every voyage is a new glorious experience.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Poems About Vacation
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Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God's Mercy
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"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
Birthday Quotes
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"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Auguste Rodin
Time
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"The experience of a single misfortune taught him a valuable
lesson and challenged him to reprogram his saving, and spending habits."
Dean Pennicott
Challenges
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Throughout one's lifetime, the experience of failure occurs frequently. And, if you think you are one of those people who have failed and therefore can't succeed, think again.
Byron Pulsifer
It Couldn't Be Done
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When children grow up with siblings, they’ll also have the opportunity to experience the joy of giving and helping, and at the same time to learn to receive what others offer them, gratefully and with good grace.
Linda Blair, Siblings
Children Quotes
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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
Work
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The experience of having a grandchild is a common bond, a fundamental human experience that people share.
Lesley Stahl, Becoming Grandma
Grandma Poems
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To experience a defeat or failure in your life is to join the ranks of many famous people who demonstrated that some of their greatest failures lead to some of their greatest achievements
Byron Pulsifer
Start Where You Stand
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By leaving our comfort zone and leap into unknown territory, travelling gives us new experiences and perspectives and makes us more open-minded.
John Smith, Travelling
Travel Quotes
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Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Alfred Sheinwold
Mistake
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"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly
and courageously. This is how character is built."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage
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And as you grow and experience life I hope you learn to counter all life's strife.
Catherine Pulsifer
Baby Steps
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"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
Positive Quotes
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"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing,
I would choose pain."
William Faulkner
Choices Quotes
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"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience,
and that is not learning from experience."
Laurence J. Peter
Learning
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"Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best."
Spanish Proverb
Proverbs
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Life lessons are just the journey of life - we always need to be learning and sometimes the lessons we learn is through failure or mistakes but that is okay as long as we find the lesson and apply it to future experiences.
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems on Life Lessons
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"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us,
we'd all be millionaires."
Abigail Van Buren
Wealth
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C.S. Lewis
Thoughtful
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"Nothing is quite as good as experience."
Homer Rich, M.D.
Attitude Quotes
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Many of us find it difficult to talk ourselves out of the hurt we feel when we experience rejection. One of the reasons rejection is often so devastating is that our reason, logic, and common sense are usually ineffective when it comes to mitigating the pain we feel.
Guy Winch, Emotional First Aid
Rejection Quotes
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"I believe experience teaches us that rewarding ourselves
for a job well done is always better than punishment."
Joyce Meyer, eat the cookie. . .buy the shoes
Believe
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