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:-

  • He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Love, Friend

  • The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

    ~ James Allen quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Vision, Life

  • We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water.

    ~ Rabindranath Tagore quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Action

  • Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.

    ~ Marianne Williamson quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Win

  • If I simply lived the principles that appeared to be truth for me, I would touch the lives of those I was destined to touch.

    ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

    Motivational Quotes on: Truth, Live, Principles

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Byron Katie Unknown Susan Jeffers Carlos Castaneda Ralph Waldo Emerson Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell James Allen Napoleon Hill Mevlana Rumi Timothy Ferriss Albert Einstein Robin Sharma Tony Robbins Seneca Friedrich Nietzsche Henry David Thoreau Oscar Wilde John Eliot, Ph.D. John F. Kennedy Ernest Holmes Marlo Morgan Joseph Campbell Vernon Howard Anthony de Mello Dan Millman Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Confucius Wayne Dyer Stephen R. Covey Robert Cooper Lao-tzu Paulo Coelho Jim Rohn David McCullough Abraham Lincoln Winston Churchill Marcus Aurelius Krishna Mark Twain Neal Donald Walsch Norman Vincent Peale Martin Seligman Bodhidharma Eleanor Roosevelt Kahlil Gibran Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Victor Hugo Andrew Cohen John Wooden Aristotle Walt Whitman Russell Simmons Donny Deutsch Ayn Rand Mahatma Gandhi Viktor Frankl Irish Proverb Samuel Johnson Jesus Voltaire Harry Truman Anonymous Robert Frost Jules Henry Helen Keller Shimon Peres Jimmy Durante Tom Robbins J. Paul Getty Gandhi Branch Rickey Thomas Paine Larry Bird Edward Gibbon Maya Angelou Thomas Merton Thomas Edison Mandukya Upanishad Jack Nicklaus FM Alexander Vince Lombardi Bertrand Russell D.H Lawrence Elbert Hubbard Chinese Proverb Erich Fromm Dr. David Hawkins Swami Chinmayananda Congo Proverb Danish Proverb Neale Donald Walsch Don Miguel Ruiz Anatole France Gretta Brooker Palmer Georgia O'Keeffe Viktor E. Frankl Yo Ki Margaret Mead Sidney J. Harris David Kekich Paul Saffo Turuvalluvar Og Mandino David Mahoney Daniel Cohen Esther & Jerry Hicks Thich Nhat Hanh St Augustine Old New York Proverb Rollo May Will Durant Nancy Mitford Nikola Tesla Jim Bishop Mary Baker Eddy Stuart Wilde Jean Sibelius Peter N. Zarlenga Malcolm X Jesus Christ George Allen Michelangelo Gilbert K. Chesteron Stephen King Apple Computers John Donne Leo Tolstoy Brahma Kumaris Drs. Lewis, Amini and Lannon Katherine Mansfield Coure in Miracles Yoda Sophocles Jeanette Winterson John Ruskin Bill Watterson Anais Nin Obi-Wan Kenobi Bill Blackman Andrew Carnegie Joseph Hopkinson Dagmar O'Connor Dalai Lama Sonia Johnson Michael Gelb Maximus Doug Firebaugh Benjamin Franklin Anne Frank

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