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:-

  • Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes…but that would be a mistake.

    ~ Unknown quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Unknown, Mistake, Now

  • It's not the will to win that matters--everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

    ~ Paul "Bear" Bryant quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Win

  • The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also the most difficult talk.

    ~ Robertson Davies quotes

  • The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

    ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

    Famous Quotes on: Tao Te Ching, The Way, Victory, Achieve, Skill

  • The world is entering a new time zone, and one of the most difficult adjustments people must make is in their fundamental concepts and beliefs about the management of time.

    ~ Dan Sullivan quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Belief, Management, New, People

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson T. Harv Eker Unknown Susan Jeffers Byron Katie Albert Einstein Friedrich Nietzsche Wallace D. Wattles Seneca Walter Russell Mevlana Rumi James Allen Napoleon Hill Henry David Thoreau John Eliot, Ph.D. Dan Millman Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Tony Robbins Ernest Holmes Mark Twain Stephen R. Covey Paulo Coelho William Shakespeare Confucius Robert Cooper Chinese Proverb Timothy Ferriss Steve Pavlina Roger McDonald Benjamin Franklin Morihei Ueshiba William James Marcus Aurelius Abraham Lincoln Joseph Campbell Anthony de Mello Rabindranath Tagore Carlos Castaneda Andrew Cohen Dale Carnegie Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Thomas Jefferson Thomas Edison Irish Proverb The Dalai Lama Richard Bach William Blake Marianne Williamson Wayne Dyer Ken Blanchard Robin Sharma Eric Butterworth Arthur Schopenhauer George Washington Carver Ernest Hemingway Epictetus Antoine de Saint-Exupery Vernon Howard Ayn Rand Benjamin Disraeli e.e. cummings Buddha Leo Buscaglia Brian Tracy Jim Rohn Connie Zweig James Bryant Conant Abraham Hicks Steven Pressfield Georgia O'Keeffe Marilyn Ferguson Annie Dillard Arthur Koestler Ken Wilber Harry Truman Ali Doug Larson Jean de La Bruyere Elizabeth Bowen Yvon Chouinard Kikuyu of Kenya Proverb Lucille Ball Ralph Cordiner Anton Checkhov Samuel Goldwyn Houssaye Michael Jordan Rolf Potts Fast Company Magazine Max Wertheimer Eric Lungaard Terry Laughlin Nikola Tesla Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Henri Bergson Theodor Sorenson Alexander Graham Bell Sun Tzu Aristotle Aldous Huxley Baruch Spinoza Thoreau Ann McGee Cooper E.M. Forster Thomas A. Edison Paul Theroux George Orwell Anne Frank Pablo Picasso Zig Ziglar Ray Kroc A Course in Miracles Thomas Paine Robert Fritz Sri Ramana Maharishi Dr. David Hawkins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Claude M. Bristol Charles Coonradt Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Dan Siegel Yoruba of Nigeria proverb Jim Carrey Carl Jung Dr. Samuel Johnson Congo Proverb O.H. Mowrer Guy Kawasaki Robert Louis Stevenson Bob Proctor Michel Eyquem de Montaigne R. Buckminster Fuller Stephen Leacock Sally Kempton Desmond Tutu Jesus George Allen Vimala Thakar Esther & Jerry Hicks Mahatma Gandhi Yoda Miguel de Cervantes Daniel G. Amen Abraham Maslow Dutch proverb Norman Vincent Peale Erin Majors Anne Lamott Rainer Maria Rilke John Ruskin Harriet Beecher Stowe

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