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:-

  • To give one's heart is to give all.

    ~ Gandhi quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Gandhi, Heart, Give

  • Break away from the tyranny of custom, tradition, conventionality, and the opinions of others, until you succeed in walking lonely and erect against men.

    ~ James Allen quotes from The Way of Peace

    Inspirational Quotes on: James Allen, The Way, Peace

  • You get from the world what you give to the world.

    ~ Oprah quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Give

  • Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

    ~ Dan Millman quotes from No Ordinary Moments

    Famous Quotes on: Courage, Love, Dan Millman

  • We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

    ~ Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Think, Arthur Schopenhauer

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson T. Harv Eker Unknown Seneca Byron Katie Susan Jeffers Mevlana Rumi Carlos Castaneda Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell Napoleon Hill Paulo Coelho Henry David Thoreau Confucius Stephen R. Covey Timothy Ferriss Robert Cooper Robin Sharma Albert Einstein Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi John Eliot, Ph.D. Winston Churchill Epictetus Krishna Aristotle Friedrich Nietzsche Rollo May Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Ayn Rand Donny Deutsch Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Roger McDonald Dan Millman Carl Jung Marcus Aurelius David McCullough Jesus Franklin D. Roosevelt Walt Disney Chinese Proverb Lou Holtz Mark Twain James Allen Luis Villalobos Jim Rohn Morihei Ueshiba Antoine de Saint-Exupery Abraham Lincoln Lao-tzu David Emerald Viktor Frankl Norman Vincent Peale John Ruskin Dr. David Hawkins Oscar Wilde Nikola Tesla Erich Fromm Mitch Albom Daniel Goleman Vernon Howard Martin Seligman Dale Carnegie Teddy Roosevelt Herman Melville Ronald Reagan Dwight D. Eisenhower Irwin Edman Patty Hansen Karen Casey Russell H. Conwell Minyanka of Mali proverb St Augustine American Heritage Dictionary Kemmons Wilson William S. Halsey Steve Jobs Katherine Paterson James Russell Lowell Theodore Roosevelt Tim Sanders Richard Bach Katharine Graham Neal Donald Walsch Russell Simmons Martin Luther King Jr. Kahlil Gibran Sophia Loren William Ellery Channing Margaret Mead Bob Proctor Seng-ts'an General George S. Patton Peter N. Zarlenga John F. Kennedy Anne Lamott Maya Angelou Emmanuel Houssaye Walt Whitman Percy Ross Michael S. Josephson Barbara De Angelis. Ph.D. John Keating Thomas Edison William E. Hickson Anthony de Mello Carl Sagan Dame Rebecca West Brian Weir Hillel Abraham Maslow Andre Previn Ben Stein Shawn Phillips Laurence J. Peter Napoleon Bonaparte Robert F. Kennedy Pietro Aretino Yoda J. W. Teal Robert Fritz Dr. William Mayo Danny Black Elizabeth Bowen Henry Ford Barbara De Angelis Rita Mae Brown Ernest Holmes Henry J. Kaiser Cyrus Curtis Sri Ramakrishna Martin Luther King, Jr. Gay & Katie Hendricks Elbert Hubbard Aldous Huxley Helen Keller Charles F. Kettering e.e. cummings Anonymous Peter Ueberroth Herbert Otto Stephen Vincent Benet Thomas Jefferson Mahatma Gandhi Rabindranath Tagore Brock Chisholm Bill Gates Robert Collier Ekhart Tolle Esther & Jerry Hicks Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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