University of Life Quotes Catalog - a curated list of all the best quotes about life and how to live it!

“Aut viam inveniam aut faciam” : “I shall either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal

“Look back along the endless corridors of time and you will see that four things have built civilization: the spirit of religion, the spirit of creative art, the spirit of research and the spirit of business enterprise.” – Neil Carothers

“Your satisfaction is what you have, divided by what you want.” – Arthur C. Brooks

“Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things.” – Arthur C. Brooks

“If we are going to beat the problem of contempt, we’re going to need something more radical than civility—something that speaks to our heart’s desire. You know what our world needs: more love, less contempt.” – Arthur Brooks

“The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” – JB Pritzker

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we will not find it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.” – Dean Smith

“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.” – Tennessee Williams

“If you make happiness your primary goal, you might miss out on the challenges that give life meaning.” – Arthur C. Brooks

“When you hate, the only person that is suffering is you because most of the people you hate don’t know it and the rest don’t care.” – Medgar Evers

“People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis,” but it’s not. It’s an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re “supposed” to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.” ― Brené Brown

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” – Rumi

“A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.” – Confucius

“What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I’ve learned that love, not time, heals all wounds.” – Andy Rooney

“Spirituality aims to recover the original shape of man, the image of God.” – Kees Waaijman

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.” – Jim Rohn

“A good friend is my nearest relation.” – Thomas Fuller

“A good horse should be seldom spurred.” – Thomas Fuller

“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.” – Thomas Fuller

“Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.” – Thomas Fuller

“A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.” – Thomas Fuller

“A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.” – Thomas Fuller

“Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.” – Thomas Fuller

“Despair gives courage to a coward.” – Thomas Fuller

“Bad excuses are worse than none.” – Thomas Fuller

“Better a tooth out than always aching.” – Thomas Fuller

“The worse the passage the more welcome the port.” – Thomas Fuller

“Change of weather is the discourse of fools.” – Thomas Fuller

“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.” – Thomas Fuller

“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.” – Thomas Fuller

“Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.” – Thomas Fuller

“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.” – Thomas Fuller

“Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.” – Thomas Fuller

“‘Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.” – Thomas Fuller

“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.” – Thomas Fuller

“Great hopes make great men.” – Thomas Fuller

“Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.” – Thomas Fuller

“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.” – Thomas Fuller