Experience Quotes

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

Strength, Success, Character

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life, Nature, Men

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

Art, Science, Beautiful

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Best, Time, Power

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

Love, Happiness, Gratitude

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Fear, Mystery

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Rich, Poor, General

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

Religion, Reason, Both

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Barbara de Angelis

Relationship, Real, Together

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear, Successful, Him

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Alive, Looking

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

Positive, Success, Attitude

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

Knowledge, Money, Hope

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony Robbins

Power, Human, Awesome

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller

Human, Joy, Dark

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller

Nothing, Find, Short

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela

Beautiful, Another, Again

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

Travel, Sad, Fool

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho

Nothing, Brave, Risks

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

Learning, History, Unexpected

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington

Enemy, After, Themselves

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Best, Almost

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Rich, Effort

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers

Good, Bad, Judgment

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Love, Dreams, Hope

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