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:-

  • For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

    ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

    Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Friendship, Warrior, People

  • We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.

    ~ Anais Nin quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception

  • We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Goals

  • When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish--as long as your feet keep on moving.

    ~ Dan Millman quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Dan Millman, Give

  • A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

    ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

    Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Warrior

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Susan Jeffers Unknown Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie Walter Russell Albert Einstein Seneca Wallace D. Wattles Paulo Coelho Joseph Campbell Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Dan Millman Mevlana Rumi Timothy Ferriss John Eliot, Ph.D. David Emerald Abraham Maslow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Friedrich Nietzsche Mark Twain Marlo Morgan Dalai Lama Russell Simmons William James Donny Deutsch Roger McDonald Robert Cooper Carl Jung Viktor Frankl Wayne Dyer Chinese Proverb James Allen Benjamin Franklin Stephen R. Covey Lao-tzu Napoleon Hill Carlos Castaneda Arthur Schopenhauer Leo Buscaglia David McCullough Maya Angelou Anonymous Richard Bach Baruch Spinoza Jesus Benjamin Disraeli Jim Rohn Elbert Hubbard Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Bible Connie Zweig Kahlil Gibran Yoda Og Mandino Ayn Rand John F. Kennedy Leonardo da Vinci George Bernard Shaw Bono Ernest Holmes Mother Teresa Zenrin Father Desmond Wilson Gay & Katie Hendricks G.K Chesterton Henry Miller Paul Saffo Anthony Robbins D.H Lawrence Krishna Andrew Cohen William Shakespeare Alvin Toffler Gertrude Stein John J. McCloy Samuel Johnson Congo Proverb Doug Weed Saint-Exupery Pablo Picasso Linda Kreger Silverman Martin Luther King, Jr. Jules Henry Mae West Brendan Brazier Chuck Gallozi Ron Popeil Maximus Rene Descartes Nelson Mandela Sherry Lansing Eric Butterworth Walt Whitman Aristotle St. Francis De Sales Robert Collier Stan Dale Lee Iacocca Nido Qubein Jim Collins Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Lou Holtz Bruce Jenner Tom Robbins Henry Ford Brian Tracy Horace Harriet Beecher Stowe Tony Robbins Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Calvin Coolidge Dr. Herbert Benson Frederick Wilcox Anon Edward Gibbon Tom Clancy Jean Cocteau Hernando Cortes get author Miguel de Cervantes Charles Karalt Andrew Carnegie Tirukural Frank Lloyd Wright Dale Carnegie Dr. John Demartini Alfred Adler Sir John Hunt Morpheus Franklin D. Roosevelt John Firman Herbert Bayard Swope Dr. Joseph Murphy Marilyn Vos Savant Les Miserables Peter Drucker Milton Friedman Frank Wilczek Stephen Bayne Steve Alford Nike Nikola Tesla Niccolo Machiavelli Frank Pittman III Epictetus Morihei Ueshiba Rosabeth Moss Cantor John Wooden George Washington Dian Fossey

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