Inspirational quotes.

Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

  • When I was younger… I didn't want to be pigeonholed… Basically, now you want to be pigeonholed. It's your niche.

    ~ Joan Chen quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Now

  • You can be hard on people as long as you’re just as hard on yourself.

    ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

    Self-Development Quotes on: People

  • We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

    ~ John Dyrden quotes

  • All that a man is outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly. To act nobly he must think nobly.

    ~ William Ellery Channing quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Think, War, Act, Work, Express

  • For some reason, when you become a support to others, you become bigger than you are.

    ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

    Famous Quotes on: Fear, Reason, Become, Feel, Support

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Byron Katie Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers T. Harv Eker Walter Russell Carlos Castaneda Unknown Napoleon Hill Joseph Campbell Timothy Ferriss Wallace D. Wattles Albert Einstein James Allen Russell Simmons Mevlana Rumi John Eliot, Ph.D. Paulo Coelho Wayne Dyer Seneca Tony Robbins Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Vernon Howard David Emerald Dan Millman Mark Twain Esther & Jerry Hicks Henry David Thoreau Dale Carnegie Buddha William Shakespeare Benjamin Franklin Maximus Henry Ford Chinese Proverb Friedrich Nietzsche Epicurus Anthony de Mello David McCullough Winston Churchill Aristotle Neale Donald Walsch Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Richard Bach Leo Buscaglia Ray Bradbury Alfred Adler Donny Deutsch Martin Luther King, Jr. Frank Herbert Jesus Lao-tzu Andrew Cohen Eleanor Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Robin Sharma Luis Villalobos Will Rogers Dr. Samuel Johnson Marcus Aurelius Irish Proverb Samuel Johnson Viktor E. Frankl Franklyn Broude N. Eldon Tanner Marianne Williamson Robert F. Kennedy Julia Louis Woodruff Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Charles Chaplin Jon Kabat-Zinn Mary Baker Eddy Aristotle Onassis Bruce Lee Kevin Roberts Warren Zevon Nancy Reagan Woody Allen Joubert Thomas Szasz Calvin Coolidge Jack Welch Mark Victor Hansen Heraclitus Og Mandino Bob Nardelli Antoine de Saint-Exupery Oliver Wendell Holmes Bruce Barton Jeanette Winterson Ayn Rand Tom Stoppard Cicero Oliver Cromwell Richard Paul Evans Daniel Cohen David Deida John Dewey Greer Garson Patty Hansen Gay & Katie Hendricks Satchel Paige Cardinal de Retz Oprah William Temple 2 Corinthians 9:6 Saint Catherine of Sienna Rabbi Harold Kushner Robert J. Ringer Claude Bernard Auguste Rodin Orison Swett Marden Jesus Christ Patrick Delany Maurice Maeterlinck Sri Ramana Maharshi Congo Proverb Thomas J. Watson Brian Tracy Venus Williams Bruce Jenner Irving Yalom Stuart Wilde Nadia Boulanger Dolly Parton Marilyn Vos Savant Henry S. Haskins Mandukya Upanishad Vaclav Havel Kelsey Grammer Harry Truman David Joseph Schwartz Maxwell Maltz Peter Drucker Connie Zweig John Dyrden St Augustine Eric Butterworth St. Paul Sun Tzu Jean-Paul Sartre Archimedes Zig Ziglar Elbert Hubbard Leonardo da Vinci W. Clement Stone Elizabeth Bowen Jack Gibb John Steinbeck James Bryant Conant Bertrand Russell Zenrin

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