University of Life Quotes Catalog

“To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.” – Steve Earle

A pupil asked a wise man how he could become a good conversationalist. The sage replied, “listen, my son.” after waiting a while, pupil said, “I am listening, please continue your instruction.” the sage smiled. “There is no more to tell.”

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Youre here for only a short visit, so don’t hurry, don’t worry, and be sure to smell the flowers along the way. – Walter Hagen

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You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. and it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God. – Joseph Smith

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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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You must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy. – Leo Tolstoy

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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”…you must do the thing you think you cannot. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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You don’t have to blow out the other fellow’s light to let your own shine. – Bernard M Paruch

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You can’t feel down in the mouth with the corners up. –

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You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford

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You can think about your problems or you can worry about them, and there is a vast difference between the two. Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion. Thinking works its way through problems to conclusions and decisions; worry leaves you in a state of tensely suspended animation. – Harold B Walker

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You can tell happiness by a smile or a laugh. But joy, real joy, is something else, something that only the eyes reveal. They seem to look out and in at the same time, loving both self and other, judging neither. – Mary Ylvisaker Nilsen

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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie

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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. – Kahlil Gibran

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Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche

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Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don’t now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate. – Richard C Cabot

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Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. – Thomas Jefferson

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When your joy is sincere you are a smile-millionaire, a genuine smile distributes the cosmic currents – prana to every body cell. – Parmahansa Yoginanda

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When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do…doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don’t want to do, they won’t. – James Gould Cozzens

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When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick. – Bill Lemley

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight. – it’s the size of the fight in the dog-Dwight D Eisenhower

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Well done is better than well said-Benjamin Franklin

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We should take from the past its fires and not its ashes. – Jean Juares

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We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. – Judge Learned Hand

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We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, doing their practical duty well; then that they may be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin

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We must become the change we wish to see in the world. – Mohandas K Gandhi

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We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. a lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. everybody should have his personal sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm…as a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence. – Andre Kostelanetz, conductor

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We like someone because. We love someone although. – Henri De Montherlant

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We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies. – Roderick Thorp

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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, “here and now”, without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank. – Ortega y Gusset

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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another-until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. – Richard M Nixon

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin D Roosevelt

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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. – Confucius

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To give life a meaning one must have a purpose larger than oneself. – Will Durant

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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. – Thomas Edison

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University of Life Quotes Catalog

a curated list of all the best quotes about life and how to live it!

“To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.” – Steve Earle

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” -Charles Dickens

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” – Charles Dickens

A pupil asked a wise man how he could become a good conversationalist. The sage replied, “listen, my son.” after waiting a while, pupil said, “I am listening, please continue your instruction.” the sage smiled. “There is no more to tell.”

Youre here for only a short visit, so don’t hurry, don’t worry, and be sure to smell the flowers along the way. – Walter Hagen

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak. – Arthur Schopenhauer

You must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy. – Leo Tolstoy

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”…you must do the thing you think you cannot. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You don’t have to blow out the other fellow’s light to let your own shine. – Bernard M Paruch

You can’t feel down in the mouth with the corners up. –

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford

You can tell happiness by a smile or a laugh. But joy, real joy, is something else, something that only the eyes reveal. They seem to look out and in at the same time, loving both self and other, judging neither. – Mary Ylvisaker Nilsen

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. – Kahlil Gibran

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche

Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don’t now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate. – Richard C Cabot

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. – Thomas Jefferson

When your joy is sincere you are a smile-millionaire, a genuine smile distributes the cosmic currents – prana to every body cell. – Parmahansa Yoginanda

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do…doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don’t want to do, they won’t. – James Gould Cozzens

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick. – Bill Lemley

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight. – it’s the size of the fight in the dog-Dwight D Eisenhower

Well done is better than well said-Benjamin Franklin

We should take from the past its fires and not its ashes. – Jean Juares

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. – Judge Learned Hand

We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, doing their practical duty well; then that they may be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin

We must become the change we wish to see in the world. – Mohandas K Gandhi

We like someone because. We love someone although. – Henri De Montherlant

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies. – Roderick Thorp

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, “here and now”, without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank. – Ortega y Gusset

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another-until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. – Richard M Nixon

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin D Roosevelt

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. – Confucius

To give life a meaning one must have a purpose larger than oneself. – Will Durant

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. – Thomas Edison