University of Life Quotes Catalog

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel an velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who hold in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect. – Carl Sanburg (on 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth)

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair. – Edmund Burke

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My definition of a leader…is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it. – Harry S Truman

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Much happiness is overlooked because it doesnt cost anything. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Most of the change we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. – Robert Frost

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. – Elmer G Leterman

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Look around and you’ll agree that the really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. – Norman Vincent Peale

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Live to learn, learn to love, and you’ll love to live. – Matthew Cowley

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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler

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Let me not look back in anger, not forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber

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Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. – John Ray

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Laughter is more contagious than tears. –

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Laughter crowds the tension out of our lives, brings worry to a halt, and gives the personality a chance to stretch. –

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. – William Cowper

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Keep on going and chances are you will stumble on something…I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles F Kettering

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Judge a leader by the followers.

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It is the feeling of exerting effort that exhilarates us, as a grasshopper is exhilarated by jumping. a hard job, full if impediments, is thus more satisfying than an easy job. – H L Mencken

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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. – Anges Repplier

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In the pursuit of values we discover that life is within, not outside us. – Lowell L Bennion

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If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. – Abigail Van Buren

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and what he could be. – Goethe

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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. – Hermann Hesse, Demian

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what might be, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility. – Soren Kierkegaard

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If human beings are to progress, if we are to continue our long, brutal, heartbreaking journey out of the caves and swamps, then the way must be led by those who are not afraid of the dark. – Pete Hamill

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Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands; but, like the seafaring man, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you will reach your destiny. – Charles Schurz

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I would be a friend to the friendless and find joy in ministering to the needs of the poor. I would visit the sick and afflicted and inspire in them a desire for faith to be healed. I would teach the truth to the understanding and blessing of all mankind. I would seek out the erring one and try to win him back to a righteous and a happy life. I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right. I would live with the masses and help to solve their problems that their earth life may be happy. I would avoid the publicity of high positions and discourage the flattery of thoughtless friends. I would not knowingly wound the feelings of any, not even one who may have wronged me, but would seek to do him good and make him my friend. I would overcome the tendency to selfishness and jealousy and rejoice in the successes of all the children of my Heavenly Father. I would not be an enemy to any living soul. – George Albert Smith

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower were I thought a flower would grow. – Abraham Lincoln

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. – John Burroughs

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I love life! The potential for good far outweighs the potential for bad. And I have faith in people. – David O McKay

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I have a kind of contempt for intelligence all by itself. Coupled with energy and willingness, it’ll go. Alone, it winds up riding the rails. – John Hersey

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I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. – Bill Cosby

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I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things. – Benjamin Franklin

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I can see…in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world. – Hellen Keller

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I am a great believer in luck, and the harder I work the more I have of it-Stephen Leacock

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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. – Confucius

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He who laughs, lasts. – Mary Pettibone Poole

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He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well, is not so apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers. –

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University of Life Quotes Catalog

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

No success can compensate for failure in the home. – David O McKay

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair. – Edmund Burke

My definition of a leader…is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it. – Harry S Truman

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesnt cost anything. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Most of the change we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. – Robert Frost

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. – Elmer G Leterman

Look around and you’ll agree that the really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. – Norman Vincent Peale

Live to learn, learn to love, and you’ll love to live. – Matthew Cowley

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler

Let me not look back in anger, not forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. – John Ray

Laughter is more contagious than tears. –

Laughter crowds the tension out of our lives, brings worry to a halt, and gives the personality a chance to stretch. –

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. – William Cowper

Keep on going and chances are you will stumble on something…I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles F Kettering

Judge a leader by the followers.

It is the feeling of exerting effort that exhilarates us, as a grasshopper is exhilarated by jumping. a hard job, full if impediments, is thus more satisfying than an easy job. – H L Mencken

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. – Anges Repplier

In the pursuit of values we discover that life is within, not outside us. – Lowell L Bennion

If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. – Abigail Van Buren

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and what he could be. – Goethe

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. – Hermann Hesse, Demian

If human beings are to progress, if we are to continue our long, brutal, heartbreaking journey out of the caves and swamps, then the way must be led by those who are not afraid of the dark. – Pete Hamill

Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands; but, like the seafaring man, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you will reach your destiny. – Charles Schurz

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower were I thought a flower would grow. – Abraham Lincoln

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. – John Burroughs

I love life! The potential for good far outweighs the potential for bad. And I have faith in people. – David O McKay

I have a kind of contempt for intelligence all by itself. Coupled with energy and willingness, it’ll go. Alone, it winds up riding the rails. – John Hersey

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. – Bill Cosby

I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things. – Benjamin Franklin

I can see…in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world. – Hellen Keller

I am a great believer in luck, and the harder I work the more I have of it-Stephen Leacock

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. – Confucius

He who laughs, lasts. – Mary Pettibone Poole

He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well, is not so apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers. –