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 you sit, sit. When you stand, stand. Whatever you do, don't wobble.

    ~ Dan Millman quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Dan Millman

  • The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

    ~ Emile Zola quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Work, Gift

  • We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

    ~ Buddha quotes

  • We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

    ~ Frank Tibolt quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Action, Inspiration, Act

  • We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

    ~ William Shakespeare quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Vision

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Quotes by Topic

Abundance Accept Achieve Act I Actualization Anger Anxiety Attachment Attention Autobiography Basketball Be You Becoming Belief Bill Russel Blood Body Bold Brilliant Buddhist Challenge Character Choice Cling Clutter Coach Combat Competence Consciousness Contentment Coward Criticize Dare Decisions Deeds Destroy Devotion Donne Doubt Drama Dreams Dying Emotion Emotional Intelligence Enjoy Enthusiasm Evolution Excellence Explore Faces Fame Fear Fearlessness Feminine Financial Fly Friend Friends Game Goals Gold Good Great Growth Habit Heroism Humble Inquiry Insanity Instrument Integrate Intensity Intention Intimacy Iq Joy Kabbalah Knowledge Language Leader Learned Lover Management Mastery Meaningful Mission Moderation Moment Mood Music Opinion Opportunity Optimist Outcome Patience Peace Perception Persist Persona Personally Perspective Philosopher Piano Plans Poetry Poor Possibility Prayer Preparation Principles Problems Progress Projections Reaction Reflection Relationships Religion Religious Responsibility Results Ridicule Risk Roles Secret Security Self-awareness Self-mastery Self-reliance Serve Service Sex Skin Sleep Solution Stress Stupidity Sustainable Sweat Temperance The Work Think Thought Thoughts Time Trail Truth Victim Winner Yin Zen

Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie Susan Jeffers Unknown Timothy Ferriss Wallace D. Wattles Seneca Albert Einstein Friedrich Nietzsche Carlos Castaneda Mark Twain Walter Russell Dale Carnegie David Emerald Donny Deutsch Marlo Morgan Ayn Rand Russell Simmons Anthony de Mello Tony Robbins Helen Keller Mevlana Rumi Joseph Campbell James Allen Chinese Proverb Anonymous A Course in Miracles Benjamin Franklin Robert Cooper Aldous Huxley Dan Millman Meister Eckhart Leo Buscaglia Epictetus Oliver Wendell Holmes Wayne Dyer Napoleon Hill Paulo Coelho Vernon Howard Marcus Aurelius Esther & Jerry Hicks Abraham Lincoln Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Thoreau Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel John Eliot, Ph.D. Rabindranath Tagore Ernest Holmes Marilyn Vos Savant Leonardo da Vinci Plato Henry David Thoreau The Dalai Lama Jesus Robin Sharma Buddha Thomas Fuller Roger McDonald Krishna Gay & Katie Hendricks Winston Churchill Mahatma Gandhi William James Thomas A. Edison William Purkey Jean Jacques Rousseau Elbert Hubbard Pierre Corneille Jim Collins Robert Frost Franklin D. Roosevelt Stan Dale Irish Proverb Rainer Maria Rilke Maya Angelou Baruch Spinoza Johan Wolfgang von Goethe get author Dr. Gary Arthur Viktor Frankl Branch Rickey Buddhist Sutra W. Somerset Maugham B.C. Forbes Carl Sagan John F. Kennedy Goethe Zig Ziglar Luis Villalobos Stephen Covey Kevin Kelly Abraham Maslow Waren G. Bennis Cardinal de Retz Socrates Vince Lombardi Loa Tzu William Faulkner Leo Tolstoy Congo Proverb Thomas Edison Ken Wilber Eleanor Roosevelt St Augustine Coure in Miracles Aristotle Onassis Houssaye Peter Senge Lou Holtz Sonia Johnson Morihei Ueshiba Dr. Seuss Barbara Sher Carl Schurz Shimon Peres Maimonides E.B. White G.K. Chesterton Niels Bohr Aeschylus John Dewey Steven Pressfield Mary Kay Ash Wyland Peter Ueberroth Herman Melville Robert Fritz Barbara Kingsolver Erica Jong Annie Dillard Robert H. Schuller Søren Kierkegaard T.S. Elliot John Ruskin Thomas Paine Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. George Washington Carver Louisa May Alcott Carl Sandburg Teddy Roosevelt John Greenleaf Whittier George Washington Mike Murdock John Bright Rabbi Harold Kushner Georges Clemenceau Marianne Williamson Teilhard de Chardin Ray Bradbury Martin Luther King, Jr.

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