Top 200 Experience Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength

2. “Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Meaningful Quotes

3. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Practice Quotes

4. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Emotional Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Deep Quotes

5. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Writing

6. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Life Lessons Quotes, Mind Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

7. “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

8. “Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Peace of Mind Quotes

9. “The expert at anything was once a beginner.”

— Helen Hayes

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Education Quotes, Growth Quotes, Quotes About Skills

10. “When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Travel Quotes, Vacation Quotes

11. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

12. “Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Growth Quotes, Challenges Quotes

13. “No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Inspirational Business Quotes

14. “People are rewarded in public for what they practice for years in private.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

15. “Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Focus Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

16. “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Enlightenment Quotes, Reflection Quotes

17. “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”

— Douglas Adams

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Humor Quotes

18. “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Inspirational Business Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Technology Quotes

19. “Wherever you are, be there totally.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

20. “Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Goal Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life

21. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Perspective Quotes, Creative Quotes, Travel Quotes

22. “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Clever Quotes, Witty Quotes

23. “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

— Benjamin Spock

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Affirmation Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes

24. “Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.”

— Jimmy Buffett

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Enjoy Life Quotes, Running Quotes, Adventure Quotes

25. “I am prepared to try anything once.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying, Crazy Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

26. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

27. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

— Vern Law

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Teacher Quotes

28. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Diversity Quotes

29. “Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Boldness Quotes

30. “I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.”

— Lewis Carroll

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Individuality Quotes

31. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Learning Quotes, Choices Quotes

32. “You can’t live at all unless you can live fully now.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Short Inspiring Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes

33. “Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.”

— Lil Wayne

Also featured in: Real Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Challenges Quotes

34. “In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

35. “My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”

— Clarence Budington Kelland

Also featured in: Quotes About People, Quotes About Children, Family Quotes, Father's Day Quotes

36. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Failure Quotes

37. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes

38. “If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Failure Quotes, Challenges Quotes

39. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Deep Quotes, Adaptability Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

40. “Life is for participating, not for spectating.”

— Kathrine Switzer

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Passion Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

41. “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Challenges Quotes

42. “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Live Life Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes

43. “Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes

44. “Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.”

— Willie Nelson

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Soul Quotes

45. “I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Meaningful Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women

46. “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”

— Randy Pausch

Also featured in: Clever Quotes, Investing Quotes, Disappointment Quotes

47. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

— Aldous Huxley

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Smart Quotes, Travel Quotes

48. “Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

49. “You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”

— Marilyn Monroe

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Short Quotes About Life, Live Life Quotes

50. “Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”

— Sarah Caldwell

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Gratitude Quotes