Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956)

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter)

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. —William James

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.” —Mahatma Gandhi

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” —Arthur C. Clarke

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” —Martin Luther King Jr.

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” —Dr. Suess

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” —Unknown

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” —Carole Burnett

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” ~ Ronald Reagan

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~ Nelson Mandela

“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ~ Katherine Dunham

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin

If not us, who? If not now, when?” —John F. Kennedy

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” ~ Mary Tyler Moore

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”~ Winston Churchill

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” ~ R. G. Ingersoll

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” ~  Seneca

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ~ John Quincy Adams

“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!” ~ Brene Brow

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” ~ W. Clement Stone

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”~ Napoleon Bonaparte

“It takes courage to walk away from disagreements.” ~ Amanda Ray

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” —Jack Canfield

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu

“Every noble work is at first impossible.” —Thomas Carlyle

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~ Kenji Miyazawa

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” ~ Mark Twain

“Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anne Frank

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ~  E. Cummings

“The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius

“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”~ Jacques Prevert

“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” ~ Les Brown

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” ~ Mary Dunbar

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” ~ Aristotle

”Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.” ~Albert Einstein

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.” ~ Ralph Marston

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Don’t think, just do.” ~ Horace