Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Socrates Quotes
JusticeNon-RetaliationMoralityForgiveness One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
WealthResponsibilityCharacter If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
ReputationAuthenticityIntegritySelf-Improvement The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
PrayerBlessingFaithWisdom Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
PowerPotentialHuman NatureDuality I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
PoetryInterpretationSpiritualityIntermediaryDivinity The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
KnowledgeHumilityWisdom To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
WisdomHumilityUnderstandingSelf-awareness True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
FriendshipPrudenceLoyalty Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
ReverenceFearDistinction Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
GodlikenessSpiritualityPurposeTransformation The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
FalsehoodCorruptionSoulIntegrityHarm False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
ImmortalitySoulRighteousnessDivinity All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
AcceptanceContentmentPerspective If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
MarriageHappinessWisdomLife Lessons By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
ContentmentWealthSimplicity He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
MarriageCelibacyRepentance As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Self-ImprovementActionPersonal ResponsibilityInfluence Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Inspiration I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
ValuePurposeLifeSelf-Improvement Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
MoralityEmotional ValuesRelativismIllusionTruth A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
PerspectiveFulfillmentAcceptanceTransformationMortality Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
GoodnessProtectionDivine ProvidenceWell-being No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
CouragePerseveranceDuty He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
WisdomHumilityKnowledge I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
IntegrityAuthenticityHonor The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Self-ImprovementLearningKnowledgeWisdom Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.