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:-

  • Even if you be otherwise perfect, you fail without humility.

    ~ The Talmud quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Humility, Talmud, Perfect, Fail, Wise

  • It is a rough road that leads to the path of greatness.

    ~ Seneca quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Greatness, Seneca, Path, Great

  • There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that; you pay with your soul. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the nerve to star in their own fucking movie, let alone direct it.

    ~ Tom Robbins quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Victim

  • Feel the fear and do it anyway.

    ~ Susan Jeffers quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Fear

  • When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself.

    ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

    Motivational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers Wallace D. Wattles Unknown Byron Katie T. Harv Eker Mevlana Rumi Seneca Walter Russell Carlos Castaneda Albert Einstein Tony Robbins Joseph Campbell Marlo Morgan Anthony de Mello David McCullough Confucius John Eliot, Ph.D. Ayn Rand Donny Deutsch Roger McDonald Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Krishna Friedrich Nietzsche Vernon Howard David Emerald Paulo Coelho Stephen R. Covey William James Napoleon Hill Abraham Maslow James Allen Dale Carnegie Leo Buscaglia Thomas Edison Abraham Lincoln Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Martin Luther King, Jr. Oscar Wilde Robert Cooper Andrew Cohen Anne Frank Dan Millman Eleanor Roosevelt Robin Sharma Henry Ford Samuel Johnson Aristotle William Shakespeare Helen Keller Albert Schweitzer Brian Tracy Russell Simmons Irish Proverb Dr. David Hawkins José Silva and Burt Goldman Rollo May Connie Zweig Neal Donald Walsch Teddy Roosevelt Baruch Spinoza Dan Sullivan Mohammed Stan Dale Bodhidharma Henri Frederich Amiel Rene Descartes Benjamin Mays Werner Erhard Booker T. Washington Ken Blanchard Larry Bird Thomas H. Huxley Michelangelo Hillel Morihei Ueshiba Bruce Lee Yogi Berra Nikola Tesla Jesus Ernest Holmes Dale Dauten Donald Calne Tennessee Williams Stephen Bayne Martin Seligman Dr. Samuel Johnson Sylvester Stallone Ben Stein T.S. Elliot Wayne Dyer Junior Murchison Brian Klemmer Stephen Covey Charles Karalt Viktor E. Frankl Kahlil Gibran Dian Fossey Jan Marshall Don Byas Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. Thich Nhat Hanh John Donne Alexander Graham Bell Katherine Paterson Robert Fulghum Pascal Luis Villalobos Vimala Thakar Ken Wilber Paul R. Scheele Maxwell Maltz Howard Aiken Eric Butterworth Emile Zola Yoruba of Nigeria proverb Sheila Graham Thomas Fuller Robert F. Kennedy Billy Graham Steven Pressfield Richard Branson Yoda John Adams Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Renan Benjamin Disraeli Henry Ward Beecher Sophia Loren Marlene Dietrich Rabindranath Tagore Theodore Roosevelt Jelaluddin Rumi George Washington Stewart B. Johnson Buckminster Fuller Chinese Proverb Xenocrates Carl Sandburg Fast Company Magazine William E. Gladstone Alfred Adler Barbara De Angelis. Ph.D. Mahatma Gandhi Franklin D. Roosevelt Anon Alexander Pope Nigerian Proverb Hudson Newsletter Dr. Montague

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