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

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

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!

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. read more

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old read more

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.