University of Life Quotes Catalog - Page 4 of 40 - a curated list of all the best quotes about life and how to live it!

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor Frankl

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Viktor Frankl

“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfil the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.” – Viktor Frankl

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl

“No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.” – Viktor Frankl

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.” – Viktor Frankl

“Be willing to destroy anything in your life that isn’t excellent.” – Joe Polish

“Don’t do your best, do what’s required.” – Eddie Pinero

“Yesterday is only as powerful as we let it be.” – Eddie Pinero

“Be the flame, not the moth.” – Giacomo Casanova

“The only way it gets better for you is when you get better. Better is not something you wish, it’s something you become.” – Jim Rohn

“If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.” – Jim Rohn

“It’s not where you’re going, it’s who you become along the way.” – Jim Rhon

“Every life is a pile of good things and bad things.” – Dr. Who

“When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.” – Oprah Winfrey

“You first have to change the way a person thinks and sees themself. You’ve got to create a sense of aspiration, a sense of hopefulness, so the person can begin to even have a vision for a better life, and if you can’t connect to that, then you lose and they lose.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Your number one job is to fill your cup and make yourself whole.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

“Listen, I wish I could tell you that it gets better. But it doesn’t get better. You get better.” – Joan Rivers

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Passion is what makes life interesting.” – Pat Tillman

“The opposite of belonging is fitting in. Because fitting in is assessing a group of people and thinking who do I need to be…and changing who you are, and true belonging never asks us to change who we are, it demands that we be who we are. Because if we fit in because of how we changed ourselves…you betrayed yourself for other people, and that’s not sustainable.” – Brene Brown

“To significantly change your world, you have to change your behavior – not just what you do, but how you do it. To deeply change your behavior, you have to change your nature – not your deep nature, though, ideally you draw that out so you can put your full innate power into play.” – Shaun Roundy

“There is no leadership without collaboration, only dictatorship.” – Scott Hammond

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” – Albert Camus

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” – William Blake

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his [or her] goals.” – Dorothy Height

“Fear minus worry equals excitement.” – Shaun Roundy

“When your relationship doesn’t help you become a better person, ending it does.” – Gary Lewandowski

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison

“A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” – Joe DiMaggio

“The things that we love tell us what we are.” – Thomas Aquinas

“Not only should you disagree with others, but you should disagree with yourself.”— Nick Szabo

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” -John Muir

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt