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 more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

    ~ Katherine Mansfield quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Love, Fear

  • Through some strange and powerful principle of “mental chemistry” which she has never divulged, Nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire “that something” which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

    ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

  • Men fear THOUGHT, as they fear nothing else on earth.

    ~ Bertrand Russell quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Thought, Fear

  • It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

    ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Action

  • Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all come…

    ~ Michelangelo quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Perception, Angel, Beauty

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers Byron Katie Unknown T. Harv Eker Wallace D. Wattles Mevlana Rumi Seneca Albert Einstein Carlos Castaneda Timothy Ferriss Mark Twain David Emerald John Eliot, Ph.D. Walter Russell Donny Deutsch Friedrich Nietzsche Wayne Dyer Russell Simmons Robin Sharma Eric Butterworth William Shakespeare Ayn Rand Paulo Coelho Stephen R. Covey Henry David Thoreau Robert Cooper Leonardo da Vinci Winston Churchill Abraham Lincoln Lao-tzu Anthony de Mello Vernon Howard Morihei Ueshiba George Bernard Shaw Dale Carnegie Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel James Allen Thomas Jefferson William James Jim Rohn Leo Buscaglia Mahatma Gandhi Michael S. Josephson Arthur Schopenhauer Galileo Galilei Buckminster Fuller W. Clement Stone Epictetus Buddha FM Alexander Dan Millman Viktor Frankl David McCullough Oscar Wilde Walt Whitman Bruce Lee David Kekich Irish Proverb John F. Kennedy Dalai Lama Thomas Edison Esther & Jerry Hicks Confucius Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Anonymous Dr. Seuss Mother Theresa Kahlil Gibran Plato Aeschylus Tom Stoppard David Joseph Schwartz Og Mandino Charles Schwab Richard Paul Evans Zig Ziglar Chinese Proverb Neal Donald Walsch Hillel Mr. Darcy Patty Hansen Nadia Boulanger From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730 Greer Garson Abraham Maslow Christian D. Larson Paramahansa Yogananda Alexandre Dumas Peter F. Drucker Dwight D. Eisenhower Aristotle Onassis Gay & Katie Hendricks Plautus Robert Frost Brian Tracy Joko Beck Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Richard Bach Donald Trump Ken Wilber Benjamin Zander Shirley MacLaine Baruch Spinoza Paul "Bear" Bryant Dante Roger McDonald Henry J. Kaiser Don Byas Rollo May George Chapman Eleanor Roosevelt Samuel Johnson Lazarus Long Chofetz Chaim John Ruskin Mary Schmich Apple Computers Thomas Merton Henry Ward Beecher Dr. David Hawkins Stewart B. Johnson Picasso D.H Lawrence José Silva and Burt Goldman Tirukural G.E. Lessing Joe Paterno Calvin Coolidge Rita Rudner John Firman Anon Richard P. Feynman John Adams Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) A Course in Miracles Anne Lamott Tim Sanders Frederick Douglas Occam's Razor Johann Wolfgang von-Goethe Abraham Joshua Heschel Max Wertheimer Daniel Goleman Henry Miller Thomas H. Huxley Mae West Charles Lindbergh Swami Chinmayanada J. Paul Getty Jonathan Winters

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