Ciara Quotes

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I learn from each experience, and I take it for what it is and gain what I can.

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

Sometimes you go through some things to find the right situation.

I draw inspiration from everything I've seen and been through. My life has been my biggest teacher.

Life is just experience, whether it's good or bad, whatever you're doing you should learn from it if you've got the right kind of mindset.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I learned from my past.

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.