The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're read more

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.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience read more

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will read more

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!