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:-

  • Everything popular is wrong.

    ~ Oscar Wilde quotes

  • Some of us are returning to sanity, because we’re tired of the pain. We’re in a hurry. No time to mess around.

    ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

    Self-Development Quotes on: Katie, Pain, Time, Cause

  • In Sanskrit, ‘man’ means ‘mind’ and ‘tra’ means ‘freeing.’ So a mantra is a phrase which is designed to free the mind... [mantras] are my faithful companions wherever I go. Whether I am on the bus, walking to the library or watching the world go by in a park, I am constantly affirming al that is good in my world through mantras.

    ~ Robin Sharma quotes

  • To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

    ~ Robert Henri quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Rest, Fruit, Happy

  • I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

    ~ Sylvester Stallone quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Win

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Carlos Castaneda Byron Katie Susan Jeffers Wallace D. Wattles Unknown Albert Einstein Seneca Henry David Thoreau Mevlana Rumi Walter Russell John Eliot, Ph.D. Mark Twain Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel James Allen Roger McDonald Marlo Morgan Friedrich Nietzsche Paulo Coelho Eric Butterworth Krishna Wayne Dyer Mitch Albom Napoleon Hill Timothy Ferriss Confucius Dale Carnegie Socrates Lao-tzu Marcus Aurelius Stephen R. Covey Carl Jung Robin Sharma Oscar Wilde Tony Robbins Aristotle Russell Simmons Robert Cooper Vernon Howard Norman Vincent Peale Joseph Campbell Donny Deutsch Abraham Lincoln Elbert Hubbard Andrew Cohen Plato Benjamin Disraeli William James Anais Nin Helen Keller Leonardo da Vinci Luis Villalobos Thomas A. Edison Rabindranath Tagore Robert Frost Richard Bach Maxwell Maltz Eleanor Roosevelt Buckminster Fuller Benjamin Mays Nike Barbara Kingsolver Alexander Smith John Quincy Adams Vince Lombardi Rusty Berkus William Faulkner Mahatma Gandhi Richard Paul Evans Virginia Satir Jim Bishop Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Malcolm S. Forbes Mary-Elaine Jacobsen Chofetz Chaim Hafez Ross Perot Jim Rohn Warren Zevon Ernest Holmes Daniel Goleman e.e. cummings Alan Kay Dumbledore Frank Pittman III Aldous Huxley Samuel Johnson Robert Browning Dee Hock Ray Bradbury Doug Firebaugh Ramana Maharshi Mike Murdock Thomas Jefferson Jean Sibelius Buddhist Sutra Tom Stoppard Bono Claude M. Bristol The Bible Alice Miller Jean-Paul Sartre Franklyn Broude N. Eldon Tanner Edward Gibbon Georges Clemenceau Paul Valery Maya Angelou Cardinal de Retz Daniel Cohen Tom J. Connelly Brian Weir Deepak Chopra John Shedd Author Napoleon Bonaparte Victor Hugo John Keats Harriet Martineau Meister Eckhart Steve Pavlina Herbert Otto Connie Zweig Dalai Lama Frederick the Great Jean de La Bruyere Pablo Picasso Henry S. Haskins Louise Hay Russian Proverb The Upanishads Ray Kroc Roger Staubach A Course in Miracles Lilly Tomlin Dutch proverb M. Scott Peck GK Chesterton Voltaire Bertolt Brecht William Saroyan Ernest Hemingway Dr. Alexis Carrel Captain J. A. Hatfield Guillaume Apollinaire Alexander Graham Bell Epictetus Jim Carrey Laurens Van der Post Teddy Roosevelt

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