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:-

  • All meaning is self-created.

    ~ Virginia Satir quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Create

  • Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

    ~ Stephen Jay Gould quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: God, Struggle

  • Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds in that state if you can avoid it. Make a firm, immediate decision, and move from uncertainty to certainty to action. Let the world tell you when you're wrong, and you'll soon build enough experience to make accurate, intelligent decisions.

    ~ Steve Pavlina quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Action, Experience, Act, Decisions, Waste, Decision

  • Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

    ~ Dan Millman quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Dan Millman, Yin, Life

  • Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

    ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Change, John F. Kennedy, Future, Past, Life

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Byron Katie Susan Jeffers Unknown Seneca Ralph Waldo Emerson Wallace D. Wattles Timothy Ferriss Paulo Coelho Mevlana Rumi Friedrich Nietzsche Walter Russell Tony Robbins Albert Einstein Buddha Russell Simmons Carlos Castaneda Mark Twain John Eliot, Ph.D. Napoleon Hill Robert Cooper Henry David Thoreau Wayne Dyer Stephen R. Covey Thomas Jefferson William Shakespeare Winston Churchill Vernon Howard James Allen Roger McDonald Confucius Anthony de Mello Eleanor Roosevelt Jesus Dan Millman Ayn Rand Donny Deutsch Aristotle David Emerald Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Nikola Tesla Baruch Spinoza Rene Descartes Luis Villalobos Sun Tzu Gay & Katie Hendricks Lou Holtz The Dalai Lama William Blake Chinese Proverb Leo Buscaglia Dalai Lama Irish Proverb Thich Nhat Hanh Robert Frost Marcus Aurelius Abraham Maslow Esther & Jerry Hicks John F. Kennedy Samuel Goldwyn A Course in Miracles George Washington Thomas Edison Mark Victor Hansen Tom Robbins Marianne Williamson Gertrude Stein Stephen Covey Johann Wolfgang von-Goethe George Santayana Malcolm Forbes Albert Camus Alexander Pope Joe Paterno Zig Ziglar Steven Pressfield Ekhart Tolle Katherine Paterson Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Turuvalluvar George F. Nordenholt Alfred Adler Mary Kay Ash Soichiro Honda Carl Sagan Leonardo da Vinci Benjamin Disraeli Cliff Durfee Danish Proverb Meister Eckhart Sophocles St Augustine Yo Ki Fyodor Dostoevski Oscar Levant Buckminster Fuller Terry Laughlin Peter Senge Jean Sibelius Calvin Coolidge Marilyn Vos Savant Paul "Bear" Bryant Coure in Miracles New York Times Jack Kerouac David Joseph Schwartz Anonymous Abraham Lincoln Michelangelo Bruce Barton Henry Ward Beecher Paul Valery Ernest Holmes Ambrose Redmoon Daniel G. Amen Jonathan Winters Jack Welch Rosabeth Moss Cantor Swahili Warrior Song Oliver Wendell Holmes Teddy Roosevelt Dante Margaret Mead Hugh Prather Viktor Frankl Rainer Maria Rilke The Bible Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard Irving Yalom Eknath Easwaran Joko Beck Lilly Tomlin Dan Siegel Robert Fulghum Billy Graham Bertrand Russell John W. Gardner Ralph Charell Heraclitus Sonia Johnson Sophia Loren Karen Casey Deepak Chopra J. Paul Getty Jean Jacques Rousseau Denzel Washington Swami Chinmayananda Brahma Kumaris Swami Chinmayanada Thomas J. Watson Maya Angelou

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