Quotes about Experience

the past travels with you. It's whether you run from it or learn from it that makes all the difference.

so many of the things we struggle with as human beings are not unique to our generation. There are lessons to be learned from those who've wandered these paths before us.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

Stop being so sure that you are always right, and others wrong. Don't trust your own opinion, when you find it contrary to that of older men, and especially to that of your own parents. Age gives experience, and therefore deserves respect.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets — neither of us have any.

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

Everything on earth changes - we have no abiding city here - it is the experience of everybody. That it is God's will that we should part with what is dearest on earth - we ourselves change in many respects, we are not what we once were, we shall not remain what we are now.