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:-

  • Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

    ~ Confucius quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Change, Wise

  • We see the essential divinity underlying the whole of the world's process of growth, and the fundamental rightness of helping that immense work forward as best we can in the time we have… The dichotomy between self and others, between responding to others' needs and taking care of one's own disappears, as one acquires the practical wisdom to see the intrinsic legitimacy of both and the relative priority of each.

    ~ John Firman quotes from Dimensions of Growth; p. 117-118

    Self-Development Quotes on: Growth, Wisdom, War, Act, Yin, Work, Best

  • A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

    ~ David Gergen quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Leader, People

  • The system is the solution.

    ~ AT&T quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Solution

  • Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.

    ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

    Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Great

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Byron Katie Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers Wallace D. Wattles Friedrich Nietzsche Unknown Walter Russell Seneca Mevlana Rumi Marlo Morgan Donny Deutsch Timothy Ferriss John Eliot, Ph.D. Vernon Howard Joseph Campbell Carlos Castaneda Russell Simmons Mark Twain Confucius Albert Einstein Paulo Coelho Thomas Edison Robin Sharma William Shakespeare Leo Buscaglia Krishna James Allen Chinese Proverb Wayne Dyer Dale Carnegie Esther & Jerry Hicks Irish Proverb Napoleon Hill Stephen R. Covey Roger McDonald Winston Churchill Jim Rohn Henry David Thoreau Epicurus Robert Cooper Henry Ford Bono The Dalai Lama David McCullough Tony Robbins Connie Zweig Benjamin Franklin Steven Pressfield Meister Eckhart Mitch Albom Franklin D. Roosevelt Luis Villalobos Ken Wilber Frank Lloyd Wright Carl Jung Arthur Schopenhauer Oscar Wilde Morihei Ueshiba Dorothy Parker Eric Butterworth Aristotle Walt Whitman Horace Vince Lombardi Martin Seligman Dumbledore Robert Collier Leighton Chuck Gallozi Stephen Leacock George Bernard Shaw Barbara Sher Carl Sandburg Rudyard Kipling Og Mandino Dalai Lama Heraclitus Herbert Otto Dr. Alexis Carrel Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Deidre Lovecky Helen Eustis Robert F. Kennedy Robert Frost Linda Kreger Silverman Norman Vincent Peale Dr. Herbert Benson Georgia O'Keeffe Guy Lombardo Bernard M. Baruch William Gibson Simon de Beauvoir Sir John Hunt Dr. David Hawkins Brian Weir Robert Browning Danish Proverb Lynne McTaggart Thich Nhat Hanh Heinrich Heine Samuel Johnson Danny G. Joko Beck Dee Hock Michael Gelb Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Saint Catherine of Sienna Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Turuvalluvar Italian Proverb Dr. Samuel Johnson Mary Baker Eddy John Wooden Rainer Maria Rilke George Chapman Lou Holtz Thomas Paine Buddha Anne Lamott R. Buckminster Fuller Daniel Goleman Tawni O'Dell Albert Camus Thomas Fuller Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Erich Fromm Jack Nicklaus Tom Peters John F. Kennedy Rene Descartes Viktor Frankl Gay & Katie Hendricks Kemmons Wilson Ray Bradbury Michio Kaku Martin Fraquhar Tupper Waren G. Bennis Anthony Robbins Theodore Geisel Drs. Lewis, Amini and Lannon Jean-Claude Killy Sri Ramakrishna Charles Coonradt Jacob Bronowski Gail Godwin Doug Larson Stephen Vincent Benet Guy Kawasaki Napoleon Bonaparte General W.J. Slim

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