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

“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

“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.” – Thomas Fuller

“Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery.” – Thomas Fuller

“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.” – Thomas Fuller

“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.” – Thomas Fuller

“Abused patience turns to fury.” – Thomas Fuller

“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.” – Thomas Fuller

“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.” – Thomas Fuller

“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.” – Thomas Fuller

“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” – Thomas Fuller

“Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.” ― Thomas Fuller

“We are all in the same gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“Interesting things happen to people who can tell interesting stories about themselves.” – Adam Grant

“Society changes when a small group of people find a better way to live, and the rest of us copy them.” – David Brooks

“Happiness is the expansion of self. Joy is the dissolving of self.” – David Brooks

“Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.” – Richard Rohr

“We’re now in a society where hatred is rewarded.” – Bill O’Reilly “It’s incentivized, it’s monetized.” – John Stewart