Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Simplicity Moderation Discernment I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander the Great

Attention Love Moderation Humility Self-awareness I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

Eminem

Moderation Pleasure Balance Self-control Happiness The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Patience Moderation Happiness Time Perspective One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Aristotle

Change Appreciation Contrast Moderation Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Blaise Pascal

Excess Change Consequence Moderation Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Plato

Moderation Self-Control Discipline It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Blaise Pascal

Health Stress Happiness Moderation What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Alexander Pope

Appropriateness Intention Moderation Deliberation A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Christopher Hitchens

Extremism Moderation Limits All movements go too far.

Bertrand Russell