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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

    ~ Elbert Hubbard quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Mistake, Great, Life, Will

  • When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

    ~ FM Alexander quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Act, The Moment, Try

  • Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.

    ~ Ayn Rand quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth

  • I am always compassionate, but sometimes in a very feminine, gentle way, nurturing and supportive, and sometimes in a very masculine way, ruthless and decisive. But I always have in my arsenal what is necessary to get the job done. I am totally integrated. There’s no need to become integrated; I am Integrated Feminine/Masculine Compassion. Another name for me is Big Heart.

    ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

  • An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

    ~ Aldous Huxley quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Learn

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson T. Harv Eker Susan Jeffers Wallace D. Wattles Unknown Byron Katie Walter Russell Albert Einstein Mevlana Rumi Carlos Castaneda Seneca James Allen Friedrich Nietzsche Roger McDonald Marcus Aurelius Russell Simmons John Eliot, Ph.D. Anthony de Mello Paulo Coelho Vernon Howard Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Donny Deutsch Lao-tzu Henry David Thoreau Timothy Ferriss Wayne Dyer Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Dale Carnegie Joseph Campbell Buckminster Fuller George Bernard Shaw Ayn Rand William James Dan Millman Leo Buscaglia David Emerald Aristotle Henry Ford Mahatma Gandhi Kahlil Gibran Ernest Holmes Robin Sharma Abraham Maslow Nikola Tesla Deepak Chopra Thomas A. Edison Gay & Katie Hendricks Gandhi Epictetus Rene Descartes Napoleon Bonaparte Eleanor Roosevelt Buddha Confucius Robert Frost Robert Fritz Jean de La Bruyere Benjamin Franklin Mark Twain Thomas Edison William Shakespeare Steve Pavlina Abraham Lincoln Irish Proverb Richard Bach Lou Holtz Donna Cardillo, R.N. Walt Whitman Jesus Luis Villalobos Johan Wolfgang von Goethe John Ruskin Aeschylus Jim Carrey Thomas H. Huxley Terry Laughlin Bruce Lee Sophia Loren Winston Churchill Jack Welch Renan Ali Antoine de Saint-Exupery Rainer Maria Rilke Helen Keller Vaclav Havel St. Paul Stephen Bayne Cherie McCoy Hernando Cortes Somerset Maugham Anais Nin David Mahoney Larry Bird Barbara Sher Anonymous The Upanishads Abraham Hicks Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) A Course in Miracles Igor Stravinsky Vincent Van Gogh Brian Tracy Dr. Samuel Johnson Desmond Tutu Mohammed Jean-Claude Killy Will Rogers Janos Arany Claude Bernard Charles Coonradt Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Rochelle Myer William S. Halsey Dutch proverb David Joseph Schwartz Guardian of the Emerald City Gates Fortune Cookie Charles Schwab Saint Augustine Aristotle Onassis Katherine Paterson Alan Greenspan Sir John Hunt Apple Computers Swami Chinmayananda Yoda Woody Allen Andrew Jackson W. Clement Stone Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu Teddy Roosevelt Marilyn Ferguson Eric Butterworth Werner Erhard Mitch Albom Carl Sandburg David Henry Thoreau Domergue Robertson Davies William Blake Basho Anton Checkhov Alexander Graham Bell John Gardner Galileo Galilei Bill Blackman Linus Pauling Teilhard de Chardin Horace Oscar Wilde

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