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:-

  • Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it... we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

    ~ Aristotle quotes from Ethics

    Famous Quotes on: Ethics, Learn, Aristotle, Act, Doing, Become

  • There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

    ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

  • Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

    ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

    Motivational Quotes on: Progress, Intensity, Master, Give

  • It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.

    ~ Ernest Holmes quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Act, Understand, Spirit

  • People talk about the reality of their life as if it is important. And we want you to understand, it’s only the temporary indicator. Do you go to the gas station—your gas gauge is on empty—do you go to the gas station and look at your gas gauge in horror? “How did this happen? [Fun] Why, why, why did this happen to me?” Do you lay your head on the steering wheel and just sob? “Oh, look what it’s come to. [Fun] I’m finished. I’ve lived all of this life, and look where I am.” Or do you just fill up.

    ~ Esther & Jerry Hicks quotes

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Byron Katie Wallace D. Wattles Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers Unknown Carlos Castaneda Napoleon Hill Walter Russell John Eliot, Ph.D. Mevlana Rumi Seneca Friedrich Nietzsche James Allen Albert Einstein Paulo Coelho Dan Millman Abraham Lincoln Timothy Ferriss Confucius Tony Robbins David Emerald Donny Deutsch David McCullough Joseph Campbell Dan Sullivan José Silva and Burt Goldman Abraham Maslow Vernon Howard Irish Proverb Carl Jung Rollo May Esther & Jerry Hicks Leo Buscaglia Henry David Thoreau Marlo Morgan William James Jean de La Bruyere Oscar Wilde Jesus Dale Carnegie Lao-tzu Francis Bacon Eleanor Roosevelt Kahlil Gibran Benjamin Franklin Arthur Schopenhauer Nikola Tesla Mahatma Gandhi Robert Frost Henry Ford Margaret Mead Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Epictetus Anthony de Mello Mother Theresa Socrates Richard Bach English Proverb Aristotle Onassis Captain J. A. Hatfield Brendan Brazier Maxwell Maltz John Wooden Maximus David Starr Jordan Rolf Potts Elbert Hubbard Dave Barry Jonathan Winters Dorothy Parker Dr. Karl Menninger Ben Stein Lisa Kirk Anais Nin Paul Valery Thomas Jefferson Fortune Cookie Plato Theodore Roosevelt Max Lucado Soichiro Honda John Ruskin Dale Dauten Christopher Morley The Bible Dian Fossey Father Desmond Wilson Michelangelo Bob Packwood John Greenleaf Whittier Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Nelson Mandella Thomas Merton Kevin Kelly Wayne Dyer Tirukural Obi-Wan Kenobi Claude M. Bristol Viktor Frankl Jeff Aubery Tom Robbins Helen Keller Madonna George Washington Carver Dr. Petrie Louisa May Alcott Andrew Cohen Hudson Newsletter Paul Hogan Augustine Alberto Salazar Vergil Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Blood of the Martyr John F. Kennedy Henri Bergson Denzel Washington Nancy Mitford Thomas J. Watson Meister Eckhart Harvey Mackay Gandhi Alvin Toffler James Branch Cabell Norman Vincent Peale Tyon Edwards Sidney J. Harris Napoleon Bonaparte Vivekananda J. W. Teal Thich Nhat Hanh Teddy Roosevelt Krishna Ayn Rand Sally Kempton Norman Cousins John Donne AT&T John Lennon Lucille S. Harper Brahma Kumaris Oliver Cromwell Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Andre Previn Russell Simmons Martin Luther King, Jr. Dalai Lama Gertrude Stein Vince Lombardi

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