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:-

  • The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.

    ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

    Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life, Win

  • When everyone dreams but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

    ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

    Motivational Quotes on: Decide, War, Paulo Coelho, Dreams, Dream

  • The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

    ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

    Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Humility, Warrior, Humble

  • The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it: but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

    ~ Madame de Stael quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Mistake

  • Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

    ~ Ayn Rand quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Hope

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers Wallace D. Wattles Byron Katie John Eliot, Ph.D. Unknown Albert Einstein Carlos Castaneda Seneca Mark Twain Marlo Morgan Friedrich Nietzsche Tony Robbins Dan Millman Timothy Ferriss Stephen R. Covey Paulo Coelho Robin Sharma David Emerald James Allen Mevlana Rumi Dale Carnegie Robert Cooper Abraham Maslow Russell Simmons Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Donny Deutsch Napoleon Hill Thomas Edison Vernon Howard Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Lao-tzu Walt Disney Oscar Wilde Confucius Morihei Ueshiba Epictetus Bruce Lee Jim Rohn Joseph Campbell Ayn Rand Buddha Walter Russell Aristotle Rollo May Brian Tracy Wayne Dyer Mahatma Gandhi Franklin D. Roosevelt Norman Vincent Peale Ernest Hemingway Anthony de Mello Percy Ross Helen Keller Ernest Holmes Thomas Carlyle David McCullough Andrew Cohen William James Gay & Katie Hendricks Samuel Johnson Tirukural Ralf W. Sockman Bono William Shakespeare June Jordan Arnold Glascow Sri Ramana Maharshi George Washington Carver Rene Descartes Steve Alford Dalai Lama Connie Zweig Kevin Roberts Dorothy Parker J. Paul Getty Herman Melville The Bible John F. Kennedy Richard P. Feynman Krishna Yajur Veda William Gibson Fortune Cookie Cherie McCoy Aaron Copland Nigerian Proverb Roger McDonald Sal Sorbera Anne Lamott Papa Wallenda B.C. Forbes Mike Murdock Booker T. Washington Jeff Aubery Harry Truman Douglas MacArthur A Course in Miracles Gilbert K. Chesteron Levell Edwards Joe Greene English Proverb Sidney J. Harris Oprah Winfrey Raymond Inmon Robert Louis Stevenson Benjamin Franklin Robert F. Kennedy Sue Patton Thoele Virginia Satir Niels Bohr Obi-Wan Kenobi Mike Maples Lilly Tomlin Wayne Gretsky Martin Luther King, Jr. Danny Black Albert Camus Doug Firebaugh Vida D. Scudder Dutch proverb John Dewey James Joyce Sam Wyly Robert T. Kiyosaki Guillaume Apollinaire Swahili Warrior Song Gail Godwin St. Paul Virginia Woolf Leighton Percy Bysshe Shelley Mitch Albom Jean Jacques Rousseau Brendan Brazier Eric Butterworth Brian Adams Wallace Wattles Rabindranath Tagore Richard M. DeVos William Blake Jon Kabat-Zinn Marcus Aurelius Vivekananda Plato George Orwell Louisa May Alcott Yoda Ursala K. Guin Shimon Peres Rudyard Kipling

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