Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Alexander Pope Quotes
OrderDivine PrinciplesEthical OrderSocial StructureFundamental Principles Order is heaven's first law.
HappinessDesireComparisonHuman Nature Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
LearningUnderstandingHumilityGrowth Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
GodDominionProvidenceFinal CausesNature & Fate A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
IgnoranceReincarnationMysteryHuman Condition But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
EducationMind ShapingEarly InfluenceValues Formation Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
LoveFriendshipRelationship No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
FidelityTrustLoyaltyReliability Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
PositivityCredulityBalanceCritical ThinkingHuman Nature The most positive men are the most credulous.
HealthStressHappinessModeration What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
InjusticeCorruptionAbuse of PowerApathy The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
AmbitionDualityCharacter The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
TransformationDestinyHarmonyPerseveranceCreativity The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
UnityNatureSpirituality All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
KnowledgeIlluminationInnovationFaith Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
HumilityGrowthSelf-awareness No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
ArtTheoryAuthenticityValue A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Contentment Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Gentle MannersMild AffectionsWitSimplicityVirtue Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
HappinessInnocenceSolitude How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
TemptationWealthPovertyStrategy Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
CuriosityCautionObservationSocial DynamicsConsequence A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
UncertaintyExpertiseJudgmentDecision-MakingDoubt Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
MindThoughtConnectionIdeaPotential Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
VirtueViceMoralityDiscernment The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
SpiritualityNatureInnocence Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Self-KnowledgeHumilityHumanity Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
HappinessKnowledgeCuriosityContentmentStates Of Being The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.