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:-

  • A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

    ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

    Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life

  • “Why not me?” You can’t just say it, you’ve got to own it.

    ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

  • I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.

    ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You!

    Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Anxiety

  • The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

    ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Jesus, Socrates

  • To give one's heart is to give all.

    ~ Gandhi quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Gandhi, Heart, Give

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Wallace D. Wattles Susan Jeffers Byron Katie Ralph Waldo Emerson Seneca Unknown John Eliot, Ph.D. Timothy Ferriss Albert Einstein Confucius Ayn Rand Carlos Castaneda Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Walter Russell Dan Millman Paulo Coelho Mevlana Rumi Joseph Campbell Marlo Morgan Friedrich Nietzsche James Allen Winston Churchill Dale Carnegie Lao-tzu Irish Proverb Roger McDonald Buddha William James Abraham Lincoln John F. Kennedy Robert Cooper Anthony de Mello Henry David Thoreau Viktor Frankl Leo Buscaglia Samuel Johnson W. Somerset Maugham Wayne Dyer Henry Ford Gay & Katie Hendricks Jesus Frank Herbert Epicurus David Emerald Dante William Shakespeare Leonardo da Vinci Marilyn Vos Savant Tony Robbins Napoleon Hill Jean Cocteau Robin Sharma Morihei Ueshiba Kahlil Gibran Anthony Robbins Alexander Graham Bell Bodhidharma Esther & Jerry Hicks Socrates Michael S. Josephson David McCullough Andrew Cohen F. Scott Fitzgerald Theodore Roosevelt Yvon Chouinard William S. Halsey James Branch Cabell Ralph Lauren Ross Perot Jim Rohn Marcus Aurelius John Wooden Peter Drucker Thomas Edison Martin Luther King, Jr. G.E. Lessing Nike Thomas Fuller Bertrand Russell Virginia Woolf Tom Robbins Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Anon Robert Fritz William Temple Somerset Maugham Frank Pittman III Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney William Ellery Channing Henry Ward Breecher Donny Deutsch Eleanor Roosevelt Lou Holtz Zig Ziglar Stephen Covey José Silva and Burt Goldman Mother Theresa Jameson Frank Mary Baker Eddy John Gardner John Steinbeck Mahatma Gandhi Kent Nerburn Daniel Cohen Harriet Martineau Douglas MacArthur Brock Tully Jack Welch Bill Cosby Henry James Pierre Corneille Meister Eckhart Oswald Chambers Voltaire Robert J. Sawyer Niccolo Machiavelli Nadia Boulanger Ramana Maharshi William Blake Buckminster Fuller Carl Sandburg The Emerald Tablets of Thoth David Henry Thoreau Sri Aurobindo Franklin D. Roosevelt Richard Bach Jean Sibelius Peter Senge Richard M. DeVos Woodrow Wilson George Shinn Aristotle Plautus Elizabeth Bowen Michael McGriffy M.D. Albert Schweitzer Cyrus Curtis Fast Company Magazine Laura Huxley John Ruskin Rosa Parks Aeschylus Benjamin Zander William Faulkner Bob Nardelli Oliver Wendell Holmes Harry Truman Eknath Easwaran Dr. David Hawkins

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