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 key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

    ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

    Motivational Quotes on: Path, Work, Doing

  • Speak from your heart and don't worry about how it's going to be taken and ask with the intention of it doing the highest good for everyone involved.

    ~ Dr. Gary Arthur quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Worry, Intent, Intention, Heart, Good, Doing

  • Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do… I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.

    ~ Albert Einstein quotes from The Private Albert Einstein; p. 110

    Inspirational Quotes on: War, Albert Einstein, Live, Act, Receive, People

  • Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

    ~ James Allen quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: James Allen, Ras, Nature, Give

  • The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

    ~ Donald Calne quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Action, Emotion, Act, Reason, Motion

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers Wallace D. Wattles Byron Katie Seneca Unknown Timothy Ferriss Carlos Castaneda Friedrich Nietzsche Henry David Thoreau Walter Russell John Eliot, Ph.D. Mevlana Rumi Dan Millman Albert Einstein Joseph Campbell Roger McDonald Mark Twain Winston Churchill Buddha Leo Buscaglia David McCullough Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Anthony de Mello Wayne Dyer Marlo Morgan James Allen Donny Deutsch Teddy Roosevelt Aristotle Chinese Proverb Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ernest Holmes Eleanor Roosevelt John F. Kennedy Abraham Maslow Andrew Cohen Dale Carnegie Krishna Robin Sharma Benjamin Disraeli Tony Robbins Vernon Howard Viktor Frankl Connie Zweig Eric Butterworth Maximus Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Russell Simmons William Shakespeare Antoine de Saint-Exupery FM Alexander Dalai Lama Thomas Jefferson Henry Ford Irish Proverb Mitch Albom Francis Bacon Franklin D. Roosevelt Esther & Jerry Hicks Confucius Robert Frost Mother Teresa Neal Donald Walsch Andrew Carnegie William James Calvin Coolidge Katherine Paterson John Keating Martin Luther King Jr. David Starr Jordan Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rusty Berkus Alice Miller Stewart B. Johnson Wyland Howard Aiken Edward Gibbon Carl Jung Mary Baker Eddy George Washington Junior Murchison Meister Eckhart Vimala Thakar Percy Ross Charles Coonradt Emile Zola Tim Sanders Apple Computers Morihei Ueshiba John Dooner Decimus Magnus Ausonius Nancy Reagan Harry Houdini Henry Ward Beecher Henry Van Dyke Oliver Wendell Holmes William E. Gladstone Claudia Black Ralph Charell Jeanette Winterson Leo Tolstoy Ron Popeil Peter Drucker Daniel Goleman Harry Truman New York Times Yvon Chouinard Robert F. Kennedy Baruch Spinoza Katharine Graham Vince Lombardi Arthur Schopenhauer Voltaire T.S. Elliot David Henry Thoreau Jean de La Bruyere Tom Peters Marcel Proust Dr. Samuel Johnson e.e. cummings Thomas H. Huxley Donna Cardillo, R.N. Sue Patton Thoele Swahili proverb Shimon Peres Kevin Roberts Ramana Maharshi Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Bruce Jenner Anais Nin John W. Gardner Oprah Andre Previn Guardian of the Emerald City Gates W.H. Murray Henri Bergson Cicero Lou Holtz Oscar Levant Rosabeth Moss Cantor Satchel Paige Robert J. Sawyer Joubert Richard Bergland Nelson Mandela Albert Schweitzer Alexander Pope Lao-tzu Lin Yutang

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