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:-

  • Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

    ~ Aaron Copland quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Confidence

  • Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.

    ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

  • As soon as you concern yourself with the “good” and “bad” of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

    ~ Morihei Ueshiba quotes from The Art of Peace

    Motivational Quotes on: Love, Weak, Defeat

  • Remember, your motto is, if they can do it, I can do it!

    ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

    Inspirational Quotes on: Secret, Mind

  • "Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity."

    ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Focus, Strong

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell Byron Katie Unknown Carlos Castaneda Donny Deutsch Susan Jeffers Albert Einstein Mevlana Rumi Timothy Ferriss Seneca Dale Carnegie Friedrich Nietzsche Joseph Campbell David Emerald Buddha Henry David Thoreau Russell Simmons William James Jesus Napoleon Hill Robert Cooper Mark Twain Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Paulo Coelho Arthur Schopenhauer Robin Sharma Dan Millman Confucius Neal Donald Walsch Winston Churchill William Blake Esther & Jerry Hicks Ernest Hemingway Helen Keller Calvin Coolidge Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Andrew Cohen Albert Camus Leonardo da Vinci Lao-tzu Steve Jobs Ken Wilber Abraham Maslow John F. Kennedy Maya Angelou Vernon Howard Marcus Aurelius Marlo Morgan Walt Disney John Eliot, Ph.D. Francis Bacon Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Eleanor Roosevelt Mahatma Gandhi Stephen R. Covey Irish Proverb Samuel Johnson David McCullough Epictetus Domergue Plotinus Nancy Reagan Richard Paul Evans Gail Sheehy Jack Kerouac Ralph Charell Charles Kingsley Socrates Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard Dwight D. Eisenhower Rabindranath Tagore Ursala K. Guin Sue Patton Thoele Frank Herbert Steven Wright George Orwell Marilyn Vos Savant Turuvalluvar Barbara Kingsolver Krishna W. Clement Stone Robert Joss Thomas Troward Bernard M. Baruch Paul Saffo Eileen Caddy Erica Jong Virginia Woolf Gay & Katie Hendricks E.B. White Heinrich Heine Ray Bradbury Tim Sanders Oliver Cromwell Vivekananda Saint Augustine Richard M. DeVos Malcolm X Christopher Morley Donald Trump Patrick Delany G.K Chesterton Leo Buscaglia Connie Zweig Zenrin Kahlil Gibran Horace Kikuyu of Kenya Proverb José Silva and Burt Goldman Louise Hay Thomas Edison Henry Ward Beecher Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Saint Catherine of Sienna The Emerald Tablets of Thoth Plato Mary Baker Eddy Rudyard Kipling Henry Van Dyke William Faulkner Neil Postman Johann Wolfgang von-Goethe Martin Luther King, Jr. Rainer Maria Rilke Jesus Christ Karen Casey Samuel Goldwyn The Dalai Lama Dante Emile Zola Japanese Proverb Ross Perot Jan Marshall Maimonides Malcolm S. Forbes Robert Goizueta Adolfo Montiel Yogi Berra Barbara De Angelis Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. Ayn Rand Thich Nhat Hanh Fanny Burney Franklin D. Roosevelt Phillips Brooks Anon Bodhidharma David Deida

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