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)

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.--Immanuel Kant

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.--Konrad Adenauer

 Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.--Barry LePatner (To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design)

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.--Joseph Campbell

 God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies." - Hudson Taylor

Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” - Corrie Ten Boom

Christ literally walked in our shoes." - Tim Keller

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us." - Billy Graham

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

Hope is a waking dream.--Aristotle

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville

Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.--Lin Yutang

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.--Letitia E. Landon

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.--Max Lucado (God Came Near)

Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.--Samuel Smiles

• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."-—C. S. Lewis

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler

• Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn

• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis

• Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” — Earl Nightingale

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I dwell in possibility.” — Emily Dickinson

“I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.” — Zane Grey

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” ― Benjamin Disraeli

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” — Joseph Campbell

“You are enough just as you are.” — Meghan Markle

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” — Maya Angelou

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” — Ella Fitzgerald

You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ―Martin Luther King Jr.

Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” ―John Wooden

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

’It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been.” ―George Eliot

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney

“Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” ―Baz Luhrmann

“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” ―Unknown

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” - Corrie Ten Boom

Christ literally walked in our shoes." - Tim Keller

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us." - Billy Graham

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.” - John Piper

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile" - Max Lucado

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies." - Hudson Taylor

Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst

Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.--Barry LePatner (To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design)

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.--Joseph Campbell

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)

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.--Immanuel Kant

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.--Konrad Adenauer

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) 

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Marlene Dietrich

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up. Jesse Jackson

Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. Confucius

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain

Stay focused on the mission. Anthony Pompliano (Source)

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka

Kindness and empathy is not weakness, it’s strength. Lex Fridman (Source)

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. William Shakespeare

Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right. Haruki Murakami

Be kind to unkind people – they need it the most. Unknown

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard

It’s not what we have, but who we have. Winnie The Pooh

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman

Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left. Paulo Coelho

 An egoist lives in poverty. A kind person lives in abundance. Maxime Lagacé

Be a little kinder than you have to. E. Lockhart

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! George Elliston

Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forge. G. Randolf

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best friends don’t expect anything from you. They just accept you the way you are.Maxime Lagacé

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendships are a reciprocation of efforts. Justin Kan (Source)

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. Irish Proverb

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin

Friendship is more than being there for your friends when they need you, it’s also allowing your friends to be there for you. Shane Parrish

Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things. Unknown

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. William Shakespeare

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. 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

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli

“What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” – Meryl Streep

“If you can’t fly then run if you can’t run then walk if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” – Michelle Obama

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Do one thing every day that scares you.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ―Lewis Carroll

“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” —Socrates

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer

Almost everything comes from nothing.--Henry F. Amiel 

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been...--Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910) 

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.--Meister Eckhart 

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression more readily taken.--Plato (The Republic) 

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.--John Galsworthy 

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.--Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin) 

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.--Amy Tan 

Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...--Catherine Britton 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.--Mark Twain 

Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina R. Flores 

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.--Aristotle 

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest, 1979) 

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.--Maya Angelou 

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.--Raymond Lindquist 

1. I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’” —Leah Busque
2. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes―understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” ―Arianna Huffington
3. “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it. Sauté it. Whatever. MAKE.” —Joss Whedon
4. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” —Michele Ruiz

1. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
2. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain
3. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan
4. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash

 

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.--William Faulkner 

Ask yourself, "How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?" I suggest you answer, "As long as it takes.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine May 27, 2003) 

At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.--Arundhati Roy (The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire) 

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.--Joyce Brothers 

Believe in what you feel inside,
Give your dreams the wings to fly.
You have everything you need,
if you just believe.--Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri ("Believe")

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.--Paul Valery

Enough! It's time to grow up. If we want to play adult games--living our Dream--we must play by adult rules. One of the primary adult rules: We are individually responsible for our own lives.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.--Douglas Pagels 

Every dreamer works in violent disagreement with their times.--Conway Stone 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.--Harriet Tubman 

The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream.--Marilyn Harris 

The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.--James Russell Lowell

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.--Aristotle 

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.--Ed Cunningham 

 The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ―Abraham Lincoln

“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” ―G.K. Nielson

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ―Sam Levenson

“You can’t have a million dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.” ―Unknown

Don’t tell everyone your plans, instead show them your results.” ―Unknown

“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” ―Louise Hay

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” ―Maya Angelou

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” ―Steve Martin

 If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” ―Wayne Dyer

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” ―Shonda Rhimes

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ―George Lorimer

“I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” ―Michelle Obama

 Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” ―Yuri Kochiyama

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out.” ―Abraham Lincoln

“Never regret anything that made you smile.” ―Mark Twain

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan