Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
John Locke Quotes
ChangeConformityInnovationProgressSkepticism New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
BalanceCautionFinancial WisdomModerationWealth Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
ExperienceKnowledgeLimitations of UnderstandingNavigationPractical Wisdom It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
AdaptabilityInfluenceMoralitySocial Environment We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
CommunicationEducationHumilityTruthWisdom It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
BehaviorCharacterMoralityStabilityVirtue An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
FreedomGovernanceJusticeLawRights The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
JudgmentOpen-mindednessPerceptionPrejudiceUnderstanding To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
ImaginationMindfulnessReflectionThoughtsUnderstanding Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
BehaviorHuman NatureInterpretationPerceptionThoughts I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
AuthorityGovernmentPreservationPropertySociety Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
EmotionLovePerceptionReflectionThoughts Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
ClarityCommunicationPeacePerceptionUnderstanding We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
EqualityIndependenceLibertyNon-HarmRights All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
ConsequencesMoralityParentingReflectionResponsibility Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Error and MistakesHuman NatureInterestPassionTemptation All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
DreamsIllusionKnowledgeReasoningTruth Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
GrowthJourneyPerseverancePersistenceProgress As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
EducationPersonal DevelopmentReadingReflectionSelf-Improvement Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
AutonomyIndividual RightsLibertyPersonal FreedomSelf-Ownership Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
BlessingsDivine InspirationFaithSpiritualityTruth The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
EthicsHuman BehaviorLoveMoralitySociety To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.