Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. Benjamin Disraeli Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. Alphonse de Lamartine Experience is the teacher of all things. Julius Caesar Experience is what you get while looking for something else. Federico Fellini Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Benjamin Franklin Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. Randolph Bourne

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Ambrose Bierce Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. Heinrich Heine Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. Minna Antrim Experience is a great teacher. John Legend Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Oscar Wilde Experience is simply t...

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller Color is an intense experience on its own. Jim Hodges Conviction without experience makes for harshness. Flannery O'Connor Deep experience is never peaceful. Henry James Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Pete Seeger Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. Deepak Chopra Every moment is an experience. Jake Roberts Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andre Gide Every...

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. Wallis Simpson Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. Bernard Baruch All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson All experience is an arch, to build upon. Henry Adams All that I know I learned after I was thirty. Georges Clemenceau An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. Don Marquis Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission t...

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. Harold S. Geneen Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. Larry Bird Leadership is influence. John C. Maxwell Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren G. Bennis Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. Bill Bradley Lead...

In fair weather prepare for foul. Thomas Fuller Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. Daniel Defoe It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. Nelson Mandela It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. Henry A. Kissinger Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Laurence J. Peter Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. John C. Maxwell Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. Warren G. Bennis Leadership - leadership ...

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David Joseph Schwartz I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. R. Buckminster Fuller I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Mahatma Gandhi If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. Tom Peters If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. William James If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. Thomas Fuller If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset. Harvey S. Firestone If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. Henry Ford If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do...