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:-

  • I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

    ~ Anne Frank quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Believe, People

  • I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least… | I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, | In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; | I find letters from God dropt in he street, and every one is signed by God's name, | And I leave them where they are, for I know | that whereso'er I go | Others will punctually come forever and ever.

    ~ Walt Whitman quotes

    Famous Quotes on: God, Walt Whitman, The Moment, Understand, Whitman, Faces

  • A journey of 1,000 miles must begin with one step.

    ~ Chinese Proverb quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Journey

  • Don't let your throat tighten with fear. Take sips of breath all day and night, before death closes your mouth.

    ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

    Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Fear, Death

  • So the Pivoting Process is simply: Whenever you recognize that you are feeling a negative emotion (it is really that you are feeling the lack of harmony with something that you want), the obvious thing for you to do is to stop and say, I’m feeling negative emotion, which means I am not in harmony with something that I want. What do I want?

    ~ Esther & Jerry Hicks quotes

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Byron Katie Susan Jeffers Ralph Waldo Emerson Unknown Wallace D. Wattles Seneca Albert Einstein T. Harv Eker Walter Russell Friedrich Nietzsche Carlos Castaneda Joseph Campbell Marlo Morgan Mark Twain John Eliot, Ph.D. Napoleon Hill Paulo Coelho Mevlana Rumi Aristotle Stephen R. Covey William James James Allen Leo Buscaglia Donny Deutsch Russell Simmons Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel David Emerald David McCullough Henry David Thoreau Dale Carnegie William Shakespeare Kahlil Gibran Morihei Ueshiba Buddha Winston Churchill Thomas Edison Ayn Rand Roger McDonald Abraham Maslow Abraham Lincoln Leonardo da Vinci Nikola Tesla Krishna Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Confucius Dan Millman Dante Chinese Proverb Thomas A. Edison Eleanor Roosevelt Benjamin Disraeli Anthony de Mello Antoine de Saint-Exupery Sydney Smith Thich Nhat Hanh Jesus Vernon Howard Werner Erhard Mahatma Gandhi Plato Calvin Coolidge Robin Sharma Samuel Johnson Wayne Dyer Peter Senge Jack Nicklaus Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Harry Truman John Ruskin Barbara De Angelis Lewis Carroll Frederick Douglas Old New York Proverb Sidney J. Harris Bertrand Russell Tom Peters Lynne McTaggart Swahili Warrior Song Irving Yalom Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Henry Miller Socrates James William Fulbright Christopher Morley J. Balfour Dalai Lama Loa Tzu Ursala K. Guin Lao-tzu Shirley MacLaine Connie Zweig Mohammed W. Clement Stone Jesus Christ Robert Frost Madame de Stael Dame Rebecca West Brock Tully Jean-Paul Sartre Author Proverb Sri Aurobindo Minyanka of Mali proverb Georgia O'Keefe Jack Kinder Rainer Maria Rilke Donald Trump Michael Gelb Ernest Hemingway Franklin D. Roosevelt Yoda Rosabeth Moss Cantor Malcolm Forbes Papa Wallenda Vincent Van Gogh Basho St. Paul Vida D. Scudder Charles Schwab Swahili proverb David Gergen Aldous Huxley George Washington Archimedes Laurence J. Peter Sivananda Johann Wolfgang von-Goethe Ralf W. Sockman The Bible La Rochefoucauld Brian Klemmer James Cameron Anthony Robbins Guy Lombardo José Silva and Burt Goldman Henry Ward Beecher GK Chesterton Brian Weir Ernest Holmes Pierre Corneille George Allen Nido Qubein Laura Huxley Ira Gershwin Mary Schmich Dee Hock Walt Whitman Napoleon Bonaparte Robert Henri 2 Corinthians 9:6 Robert Allen

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