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:-

  • Not only is there little stigma attributed to going bankrupt among cutting-edge entrepreneurs, it’s even seen as a good source of business experience.

    ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

    Self-Development Quotes on: Business, Experience, Sin, Unknown, Mistake, Good, Edge, Entrepreneur

  • What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

    ~ Viktor E. Frankl quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Tension, Act

  • Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

    ~ Eleanor Roosevelt quotes from This is my story"; p. 162

    Motivational Quotes on: Eleanor Roosevelt, Live, Life, Discover, Decision

  • Don’t get me wrong. I am by no means saying that you can’t be both wealthy and happy. But whether you have a seven-figure trust fund or a pile of unpaid bills on your kitchen table, the path to freedom requires that you focus more on your inner life than on your outer financial circumstances

    ~ Brent Kessel quotes from It’s Not About the Money

  • Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

    ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

    Famous Quotes on: Action, Live, Katie, Act

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Quotes by Teachers

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