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:-

  • Are you closer right now to where you want to be than you were a half-hour ago?

    ~ Robert Cooper quotes from The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership & Life

    Motivational Quotes on: Leadership, Life, Potential

  • Professor William James, the father of applied psychology, has been dead since 1910. But if he were alive today, and could hear this formula for facing the worst, he would heartily approve of it. How do I know that? Because he told his own students: “Be willing to have it so... Be willing to have it so,” he said, because “...acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

    ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

  • There is only one journey: going inside yourself.

    ~ Rainer Maria Rilke quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Journey

  • Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

    ~ Marlene Dietrich quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Act, Sex, World, Rich

  • Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

    ~ Isaac Asimov quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Death, Life, Peace

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Susan Jeffers Byron Katie Unknown Ralph Waldo Emerson Albert Einstein Seneca Timothy Ferriss Carlos Castaneda Mevlana Rumi Joseph Campbell Friedrich Nietzsche Wallace D. Wattles Buddha Roger McDonald John Eliot, Ph.D. Donny Deutsch Mahatma Gandhi Mark Twain Vernon Howard David Emerald Henry David Thoreau Tony Robbins Paulo Coelho Robin Sharma Walter Russell Neal Donald Walsch Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Abraham Lincoln Eric Butterworth Napoleon Hill William James Aristotle Ayn Rand Irish Proverb Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel James Allen Connie Zweig Dan Millman Wayne Dyer Confucius Morihei Ueshiba Arthur Schopenhauer Meister Eckhart Dale Carnegie Franklin D. Roosevelt William Shakespeare Lao-tzu Jesus George Washington Nikola Tesla Ernest Hemingway William Blake Anthony de Mello Frank Herbert Antoine de Saint-Exupery Jean Sibelius Andrew Cohen John F. Kennedy Oscar Wilde Jim Rohn Robert Cooper Russell Simmons Edward J. Koch Don Marquis Italian Proverb Harry Truman Erma Bombeck José Silva and Burt Goldman Mary Schmich David Starr Jordan John Assaraf Richard Branson Richard P. Feynman Paramahansa Yogananda Robert Allen Voltaire Niels Bohr Thomas Fuller Sir Winston Churchill Neale Donald Walsch N. Eldon Tanner Ben Stein Bertrand Russell Jean Cocteau Alfred Adler Fanny Burney Daniel Cohen Ken Wilber Esther & Jerry Hicks Sheila Graham Paul R. Scheele Vaclav Havel Albert Schweitzer Werner Erhard Robertson Davies Simon de Beauvoir Tim Sanders Erich Fromm Dr. Alexis Carrel Martin Luther King, Jr. Steve Jobs Teddy Roosevelt Joseph Hopkinson Thomas Troward Michael Jordan Deepak Chopra Maya Angelou Milton Friedman Jack Welch Mike Maples Gandhi John Dewey Michael S. Josephson G.E. Lessing Henry Ford St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney John Ruskin Andrew Carnegie John Wooden Andre Gide Eric Hoffer Plato Robert Browning Robert Louis Stevenson Peter Drucker Emile Zola James William Fulbright Francis Bacon Joe Paterno Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Muir Anita Roddick Junior Murchison Jose Ortega y Gasset Robert F. Kennedy Oprah Henry Miller Mary Kay Ash Kikuyu of Kenya Proverb Walt Whitman Jon Kabat-Zinn Robert Fritz Jameson Frank Branch Rickey The Dalai Lama Jeff Aubery Claude Bernard Eliot Spitzer Stephen R. Covey Calvin Coolidge

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