Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

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.
ActionInfluencePersonal ResponsibilitySelf-Improvement Let him that would move the world first move himself.
AuthenticityIntegrityTrue Self Be as you wish to seem.
HumilityIgnorance I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
HumilitySelf-awarenessUnderstandingWisdom True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
DualityHuman NaturePotentialPower I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
BeautyProcreation Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
HumilityKnowledgeWisdom To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
AuthenticityIntegrityReputationSelf-Improvement The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
CuriosityExplorationWisdomWonder Wisdom begins in wonder.
CharacterResponsibilityWealth If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
FriendshipLoyaltyPrudence Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
DivinityIntermediaryInterpretationPoetrySpirituality The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
ForgivenessJusticeMoralityNon-Retaliation 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.
BlessingFaithPrayerWisdom Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
DesireHate From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
GodlikenessPurposeSpiritualityTransformation The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
FulfillmentGrowthJoyMeaningValue Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
HonestyIntegrityPoliticsSurvival I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
DivinityImmortalityRighteousnessSoul All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
ContentmentSimplicityWealth He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
DistinctionFearReverence 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.
CorruptionFalsehoodHarmIntegritySoul False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
HappinessLife LessonsMarriageWisdom 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.
BusynessEmptinessFulfillment Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
CelibacyMarriageRepentance As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
HumilityInquiryLearningSelf-awarenessWisdom True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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.
BeautyEphemeralityPerceptionTransient NatureTyranny Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.