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:-

  • Every exit is an entry somewhere.

    ~ Tom Stoppard quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception

  • When getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

    ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Communication

  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

    ~ Mark Twain quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Risk, Dream, Win

  • The most important thing is for you to be your own best friend. Whatever you are doing—don’t put yourself down. Slowly begin to discover which, for you, is the path of the heart. Which path in life will make you grow? That is the path to take.

    ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

    Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Heart, Path, Best, Life, Doing, Discover, Friend, Be You, Will, Feel

  • I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

    ~ Xenocrates quotes

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers T. Harv Eker Wallace D. Wattles Unknown Byron Katie Walter Russell Carlos Castaneda Henry David Thoreau Seneca David Emerald Joseph Campbell Stephen R. Covey William James Friedrich Nietzsche Albert Einstein Mevlana Rumi Mark Twain Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Timothy Ferriss Lao-tzu James Allen Tony Robbins Neal Donald Walsch Donny Deutsch Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill Russell Simmons Dan Millman Paulo Coelho Dale Carnegie Richard Bach Marcus Aurelius Vernon Howard John Eliot, Ph.D. Krishna Rollo May Benjamin Franklin Andrew Cohen Antoine de Saint-Exupery Roger McDonald Meister Eckhart Wayne Dyer Eleanor Roosevelt Norman Vincent Peale Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Robert Fritz Robin Sharma Robert Cooper Connie Zweig John F. Kennedy David McCullough Thomas J. Watson Napoleon Hill Napoleon Bonaparte Peter F. Drucker James William Fulbright Shawn Phillips Howard Gardner Steven Pressfield Henri-Frederic Amiel Hudson Newsletter William E. Gladstone Vaclav Havel Mae West 2 Corinthians 9:6 Jim Carrey Henry Ford Ken Blanchard Horace Heraclitus Ray Bradbury M. Scott Peck Mother Teresa Steve Pavlina Thomas Carlyle Don Miguel Ruiz Paul Saffo Ovid Tom Robbins Esther & Jerry Hicks Chuck Gallozi Maurice Maeterlinck Galileo Galilei Franklyn Broude George Bernard Shaw Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Frank Tibolt Ali e.e. cummings Thea Alexander Jimi Hendrix Arthur Schopenhauer Richard Koch Kerry Gleeson Isabelle Holland Robert Orben Yoda Swahili Warrior Song Dolly Parton Adolfo Montiel Niels Bohr Nadia Boulanger Vince Lombardi Jan Marshall Eric Hoffer Katharine Graham Confucius Greek Proverb Anita Roddick Zig Ziglar John Keating Cardinal de Retz Alfred Adler St. Paul Viktor Frankl Author George Washington Carver Charles Coonradt G.E. Lessing Dr. Joseph Murphy Orison Swett Marden Neale Donald Walsch Oscar Wilde Vivekananda Kevin Kelly T.S. Elliot Kelsey Grammer Rolf Potts Sir William Osler Henry Ward Beecher Eric Lungaard Swami Chinmayananda Heinrich Heine Teddy Roosevelt The Upanishads Benjamin Disraeli Paul R. Scheele Margaret Mead Nelson Mandela Wilhelm Stekel Mahatma Gandhi John Keats Viktor E. Frankl John W. Gardner Deepak Chopra Minyanka of Mali proverb Stephen Bayne Anne Lamott Jack Nicklaus Dalai Lama

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