Top 200 Experience Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

— C. S. Lewis

102. “If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

103. “Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”

— C.G. Jung

104. “Experience is the teacher of all things.”

— Julius Caesar

105. “I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

106. “One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.”

— John Muir

107. “Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

108. “There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”

— Paulo Coelho

109. “‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’”

— Louis C.K.

110. “View life as a continuous learning experience.”

— Denis Waitley

111. “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

112. “You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

— Albert Camus

113. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

— Anthony Bourdain

114. “There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”

— Oscar Wilde

115. “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”

— Jeff Bezos

116. “It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed

117. “All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”

— Paulo Coelho

118. “At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.”

— Ann Landers

119. “The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.”

— Leo Buscaglia

120. “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but – well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

121. “Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

122. “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver

123. “The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.”

— Paulo Coelho

124. “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

— John Keats

125. “Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses...”

— Marcus Aurelius

126. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”

— Khalil Gibran

127. “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

128. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”

— Tony Robbins

129. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

— Winston Churchill

130. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

— Orhan Pamuk

131. “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

— Paulo Coelho

132. “Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.”

— Ray Dalio

133. “The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.”

— Tony Robbins

134. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

— Christopher McCandless

135. “When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.”

— C.P. Cavafy

136. “Today only happens once in a lifetime. Make the most of it.”

— Michael Ray

137. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”

— Jim Rohn

138. “Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.”

— Chinua Achebe

139. “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

140. “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

— Oprah Winfrey

141. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

— Bob Moawad

142. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

143. “I’ve learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.”

— Andy Rooney

144. “May you live every day of your life.”

— Jonathan Swift

145. “Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.”

— L.R. Knost

146. “Life is about trying things to see if they work.”

— Ray Bradbury

147. “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

— George Bernard Shaw

148. “Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

149. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

150. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”

— Henry David Thoreau