Top 97 Quotes About Bad Experiences
#1. You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions.
Violetta Botzet Luetgers
#2. Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#3. Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
Albert Einstein
#4. It's hard to forget hurtful things, isn't it? Children with autism have good memories. So it's much harder for them to forget bad experiences than it is for us. So fill them with as many good experiences as possible.
Keiko Tobe
#5. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!
Jean Van Hamme
#6. I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese ... they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy.
Ian Graham
#7. To me, he was saying that our reality is shaped by our perceptions. That something is good or bad only because we- you and I- believe it to be so, based on our own experiences.
Nicholas Sparks
#8. I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.
Lady Saw
#9. I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again.
Archie Manning
#10. What we may view as bad or dark experiences will often be what makes us who we were always meant to be.
Beem Weeks
#11. All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!
David Berg
#12. I came to accept and embrace my past - both the good things and the bad. I wouldn't be who I am, or where I am, if I hadn't had my experiences and trials.
Megan Thomason
#13. I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Luis Miguel
#14. We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverse
knowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanent
construction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, social
exposure).
Lisa Adkins
#15. Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.
John C. Maxwell
#16. Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
Elijah Wood
#17. Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#18. A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life's lessons.
Richard Branson
#19. As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'
Pema Chodron
#20. You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!
Jennifer Connelly
#21. I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'
Adam Rapp
#22. I knew her type. She'd had some bad dating experiences and now she focused more on what she didn't want than what she did want. Avoidance dating. She was already angry with me for the thoughtless things I would potentially do if we dated. When
Will McIntosh
#23. What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you.
Donald L. Hicks
#24. Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending.
George Sheehan
#25. Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.
Paul Azinger
#26. Anything new is a sort of adventure - as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like unusual foods, and I hated new clothes or having my hair cut.
Mini Grey
#27. If we choose to believe that we're responsible for our experiences, the good and the so-called bad, then we have the opportunity to outgrow the effects of the past. We can change. We can be free.
Louise Hay
#28. There comes a moment in our lives when some of the pieces of the puzzle come together - where all our past experiences, both good and bad, are brought to bear in causing us to become who God intends us to be.
Michael Card
#29. I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.
Brooke Burke
#30. You can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.
Lois Lowry
#31. One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.
J. Loren Norris
#32. You need to accept your experiences, both the good and bad, and move forward.
Bryant McGill
#33. In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
Andy Rooney
#34. Most people are far more prone to let the bad experiences shape their views than the good ones.
Rick Joyner
#35. Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.
Tim Fargo
#36. TIME WAS MY worst enemy. Nothing good ever came from time. It passed too quickly - good moments and happy memories gone in a blink. Or it passed too slowly - bad experiences and unhappy circumstances dragging for an eternity.
Pepper Winters
#37. God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.
Lysa TerKeurst
#38. I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.
Jessica Capshaw
#39. Every memory makes me who I am right now, in this moment. Good or bad, all experiences shape you.
L. H. Cosway
#40. You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.
Nina Hagen
#41. Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad.
Dallin H. Oaks
#42. Maybe there came a point in life where you had to quit categorizing whole groups of people by a few bad experiences.
Lisa Wingate
#43. I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.
Michael Dumontier
#44. The problem with people like me who are emotionally unhinged is that we think with a tsunami of bad experiences flooding our brains. We think with insecurity, and raging pain, all triggered by what has come before. We see threats to us personally lurking around corners, curves, and right angles.
Cathy Lamb
#45. I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination.
Violante Placido
#46. Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
Ustad Bismillah Khan
#47. I had seen the world as either white or black.
It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.
Sanhita Baruah
#48. Good days are not memorable but bad experiences always in our memory
Osunsakin Adewale
#49. to help our ancestors survive, the brain evolved a negativity bias that makes it like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones.
Rick Hanson
#50. Negative experiences lower our personal vibrations and we feel bad. This state attracts more negative experiences leading to negative vibrations. Lower vibes are bad for health of the soul.
Hina Hashmi
#51. The brain is good at learning from bad experiences, but bad at learning from good ones.
Rick Hanson
#52. I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.
Ezra Koenig
#53. To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
W. H. Auden
#54. Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.
Leon Brown
#55. Love is pain. You can't have one without the other. There's no picking and choosing experiences. The good comes with the bad.
Shyla Colt
#56. I'm thankful for some of bad experiences I've had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.
Blake Griffin
#57. Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.
Alexander Kjerulf
#58. In fact, being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances, risks, and opportunities.
Julie K. Norem
#59. A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#60. By correcting your daily life which includes your thoughts too, you can save yourself from many bad experiences of life.
Puneet Kumar
#61. I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd get a ride with a ministers wife or a coalminer or a Republican elected official. It was all pleasant surprises. The only drag was the waiting.
John Waters
#62. Our experiences always teach us something. If the experience is "bad", then the lesson is even more powerful and meaningful. Every unfortunate incident makes us stronger and better equipped to handle new challenges.
Miya Yamanouchi
#63. I don't really want to leave anything in life behind. We have bad experiences, we have difficult experiences, but if you leave everything behind, you have no past.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#64. Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we create for ourselves is the biggest gift we can ever receive.
KoKo Nervelli
#65. Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.
Pope Francis
#66. Good experiences give us happiness but bad experiences teach us good lessons
Michael Morpurgo
#67. What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.
Tom Golisano
#68. Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them - and accept them - for who they were.
Tamera Alexander
#69. Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
Robert Kiyosaki
#70. I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.
Bobby Flay
#71. When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective ... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.
John C. Maxwell
#72. A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
Chanakya
#73. The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.
Thalia
#74. For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.
Justin Guarini
#75. When you stand by and let bad things happen, your child experiences the twin disappointments that something went wrong and you did not seem to care enough about her to lift a finger to help prevent the mishap.
Alfie Kohn
#76. I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
Manika
#77. See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.
Ogwo David Emenike
#78. I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.
Erin Morgenstern
#79. I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
Angelina Jolie
#80. Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives - the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we'd just as soon forget.
Sharon Salzberg
#81. When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences - good and bad alike - are opportunities to learn and grow.
Sharon Salzberg
#82. Live your life remembering good experiences, the bad ones were just lessons
Michello Borgo
#83. I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.
Grace Paley
#84. Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.
Frederick Lenz
#85. I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
Garry Kasparov
#86. So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.
Sarah Dessen
#87. Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences - good or bad - with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love.
Susan Jeffers
#88. I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them.
Leighton Meester
#89. Everything that God puts in our life is a lesson, even the bad experiences. Learn from them, adjust your direction, grow and move on.
Claudia McCants
#90. They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay
Dalton Trumbo
#91. To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing
and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good
but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.
William Pepperell Montague
#92. While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly.
Susan Jeffers
#93. You are the only common denominator in everything that has happened to you in life, be it good or bad. To learn/grow from these experiences, you must accept the role you played in each of them.
A.C. Anderson
#94. All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad.
Brenda Shoshanna
#95. There's no such thing as a mistake. There are only experiences. Some are good, and some are bad. Either way, it is an experience we learn from.
Jenna Alatari
#96. Churches, laypersons, and ministers regularly have bad experiences in imbalanced churches and in response flee to the opposite extreme - an equally unbalanced form of ministry.
Timothy Keller
#97. The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.
Sal Martinez