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

“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

“If we really care about connection and compassion, we have to be curious and ask. We have to be learners, not knowers. We have to believe people.” – Brené Brown