Quotes about Experience

I don't go along with the people who say they'd never want to live their childhoods again; I treasure every bit of mine, all the pains as well as the joy of discovery. But I also love being a grownup. To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look towards the future.

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

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.

He will make His holy promise an actual reality in our conscious experience: "Lo, I am with you alway[s]" (Matt. 28:20). Let us see to it that our faith in His blessed Word, in His divine power, and in His holy abiding presence, is the one thing that masters our whole beings. Then Christ will indeed manifest Himself, abide with us, and dwell in our hearts as His home.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES—THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.