Top 200 Experience Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

— Abraham Lincoln

52. “Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.”

— Ratan Tata

53. “The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

54. “You can’t read about push ups. You gotta do them.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

55. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

— Muhammad Ali

56. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”

— Dale Carnegie

57. “Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.”

— Colin Powell

58. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

59. “I failed my way to success.”

— Thomas A. Edison

60. “While we teach, we learn.”

— Seneca the Younger

61. “The best things in life aren’t things.”

— John Ruskin

62. “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

— Ernest Hemingway

63. “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you're doing something.”

— Neil Gaiman

64. “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

65. “The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow – the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

66. “All genuine learning comes through experience.”

— John Dewey

67. “After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.”

— Zig Ziglar

68. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”

— Tennessee Williams

69. “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

70. “Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience.”

— David A. Kolb

71. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”

— Anthony Bourdain

72. “The adventure of life is to learn...”

— William Arthur Ward

73. “Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”

— Neil Gaiman

74. “In youth we learn; in age we understand.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

75. “Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

— Omar Khayyam

76. “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”

— Charles Dickens

77. “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”

— Jojo Moyes

78. “The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”

— Joseph Campbell

79. “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”

— Eckhart Tolle

80. “Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.”

— Brian Tracy

81. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

— Cesare Pavese

82. “Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.”

— Jim Rohn

83. “While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.”

— Rick Warren

84. “Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.”

— Joseph Campbell

85. “The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.”

— Tony Robbins

86. “Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.”

— Brian Tracy

87. “Life is what you make it.”

— Grandma Moses

88. “What’s past is prologue.”

— William Shakespeare

89. “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

— Anne Lamott

90. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

91. “Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

92. “No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.”

— Denis Waitley

93. “Past and future are in the mind only – I am now.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

94. “Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

— Mark Twain

95. “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

— Eckhart Tolle

96. “When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

97. “You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.”

— Stephen R. Covey

98. “Everybody has a story. And there’s something to be learned from every experience.”

— Oprah Winfrey

99. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Nhat Hanh

100. “See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.”

— Miyamoto Musashi