Top 200 Experience Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

— Tom Bodett

152. “Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”

— Smith Wigglesworth

153. “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”

— Paulo Coelho

154. “Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

155. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

— Amelia Earhart

156. “Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.”

— Indira Gandhi

157. “Maturity comes with experience, not age.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

158. “To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

— Oscar Wilde

159. “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

160. “With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

161. “Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”

— Jack Kerouac

162. “You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”

— Tom Hiddleston

163. “Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.”

— Maria Montessori

164. “This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we go.”

— Pema Chödrön

165. “I was born to enjoy life. And so it is.”

— Louise Hay

166. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”

— Rumi

167. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

168. “Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.”

— Seth Godin

169. “I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

— Eric Roth

170. “By far the best proof is experience.”

— Francis Bacon

171. “You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it’s true. At the end of the day, we can’t always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

172. “Are you here to experience life or think about it?”

— Jaggi Vasudev

173. “Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.”

— Charlie Chaplin

174. “The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

175. “Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.”

— Rhonda Byrne

176. “To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.”

— Nhat Hanh

177. “If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.”

— Sydney Banks

178. “Lesson learned. Wisdom earned.”

— Steve Gilliland

179. “Don’t judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”

— Sharon Creech

180. “Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”

— Rumi

181. “Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.”

— Chris Prentiss

182. “Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.”

— Oprah Winfrey

183. “It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.”

— Zig Ziglar

184. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

— Oprah Winfrey

185. “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.”

— Morihei Ueshiba

186. “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

187. “Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

188. “Experience teaches only the teachable.”

— Aldous Huxley

189. “There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

190. “Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

191. “When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.”

— Bear Bryant

192. “It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

193. “Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.”

— Sasha Azevedo

194. “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

195. “Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.”

— Tony Hsieh

196. “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”

— Gilda Radner

197. “I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”

— Maya Angelou

198. “Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.”

— Dan Millman

199. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”

— Michel Legrand

200. “Take a chance – it’s the best way to test yourself, have fun and push boundaries.”

— Richard Branson