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

    Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Change, Wise

  • All you have to do to find a way out of your self-imposed prison is to retrain your thinking.

    ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

    Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Think, Thinking, Train, Feel

  • You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

    ~ James Allen quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Thoughts, James Allen

  • Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve...Learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Then, you will achieve your destiny.

    ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

    Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Joy, Truth, Life, Destiny, Fear, Determination, Achieve, Serve

  • If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole world would be clean.

    ~ Mother Teresa quotes

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Quotes by Teachers

Susan Jeffers T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie Walter Russell Seneca Mevlana Rumi Unknown Timothy Ferriss Albert Einstein Donny Deutsch Wallace D. Wattles Russell Simmons Carlos Castaneda James Allen Napoleon Hill Richard Bach Mark Twain Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Friedrich Nietzsche Paulo Coelho Stephen R. Covey Abraham Lincoln Marlo Morgan David McCullough Winston Churchill John Eliot, Ph.D. Ayn Rand Robin Sharma Buddha Vernon Howard Joseph Campbell Andrew Cohen Krishna Henry David Thoreau Connie Zweig David Emerald George Bernard Shaw Confucius Samuel Goldwyn Aldous Huxley Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Tony Robbins Chinese Proverb Eleanor Roosevelt Frank Lloyd Wright Thomas A. Edison Steven Pressfield Benjamin Franklin Eric Butterworth Victor Hugo Bruce Lee Franklin D. Roosevelt William Shakespeare Nikola Tesla José Silva and Burt Goldman Edward Gibbon George F. Nordenholt J. Balfour Donald Calne Morpheus Colin Powell Jeff Aubery Buddhist Sutra Gretta Brooker Palmer Esther & Jerry Hicks Sir Humphrey Davy Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Kevin Kelly John Keats Henry Ward Beecher The Dalai Lama Oscar Levant Dr. Gary Arthur William Rigley, Jr. Antoine de Saint-Exupery David Gergen Dr. Alexis Carrel Henry Ford Barbara Sher Lao-tzu Shira Tehrani Theodore Geisel Edwin Markham Harvey Mackay John Ruskin Dale Carnegie Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Alice Miller Ray Kroc Donna Cardillo, R.N. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel George Shinn Ken Blanchard Claude Bernard Irish Proverb Tim Sanders Sanskrit Poem Ira Gershwin Publilius Syrus Bob Proctor Aristotle Mahatma Gandhi Dr. Candace B. Pert Jake Gaither Mae West Michael S. Josephson Doug Weed Alexander Graham Bell Fanny Burney Marianne Williamson Roger McDonald Yoruba of Nigeria proverb Arnold Toynbee Meister Eckhart Ramana Maharshi Ekhart Tolle Francis Bacon Augustine Turuvalluvar Don Miguel Ruiz John W. Newbern Arnold Glascow Michelangelo Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Marcus Aurelius Milton Friedman The Emerald Tablets of Thoth Stephen King Andrew Jackson Cyrus Curtis W. Clement Stone John Wooden Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu John Adams Mohammed Dr. Deidre Lovecky Maximus Luis Villalobos Plautus Epictetus Og Mandino Mother Theresa Isaac Asimov Ray Bradbury R. Buckminster Fuller Jim Carrey Michio Kaku Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Robert Allen Walt Disney

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