Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Edmund Burke Quotes
Happiness vs VirtueHealth and Well-beingNorms and BeliefsSelf RelianceTrade-Offs in Life If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
CopingHuman ConditionSubstance UseSuffering Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
EthicsJusticeReason It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
GovernanceLegislaturePublic WillResponsiveness In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
ActionAgencyDecisionFearReason No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Authority vs PublicConflictPublic WillResistanceSocietal Dynamics I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
BalanceJusticeLibertyMoral PhilosophySecurity Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Abuse of PowerDemocracyMinority RightsOppression In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Divine LawHumanityJusticeNatural LawUniversal Law There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
HappinessProsperityStrengthUnityWell-being If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
BoundariesFeelingImaginationPassion There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
ControlFinancial IndependenceFreedomWealth If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
CollaborationFeedbackGrowthHumilityLeadership I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
InnovationNarrow-MindednessProgressSelfishnessTradition A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
ForesightPreparednessPreventionPrudence Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
DeceptionFalse PromisesGrandiosityHypocrisyInaction Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
ConsequenceDestructionNeglectPerseveranceResilience By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.