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:-

  • We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

    ~ James William Fulbright quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Think, Fear, Possibilities

  • Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

    ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

    Motivational Quotes on: Energy

  • Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.

    ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

    Famous Quotes on: God, War, Power, Great, Within

  • Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

    ~ Epictetus quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Love

  • Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

    ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset quotes

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Quotes by Teachers

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