Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the key to greatness.

- Williams, Arthur

Best Quotes about Experience

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Benson, Ezra Taft

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

James, Henry

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Butler, Samuel

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Eliot, George

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.

Brandeis, Louis D.

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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Twain, Mark

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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Carter, Angela

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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Geneen, Harold S.

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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.