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 big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.

    ~ Oprah quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Secret, Work, Diligence

  • This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

    ~ Dalai Lama quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Love, Kindness, Religion, Simple, Buddhism

  • It is heartening to realize that although we may crave comfort and routine, we nourish the soul’s growth primarily through what is hard. As Darwin saw it, it’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but those who are most responsive to change.

    ~ Robert Cooper quotes from The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership & Life

    Inspirational Quotes on: Leadership, Growth, Change, Heart, Life, Soul, Potential, Strong, Win

  • As a solid rock cannot be moved by the wind, the wise are not shaken by praise or blame.

    ~ Buddha quotes

  • If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest.

    ~ Unknown quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Unknown, Great, Now, Feel

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Quotes by Topic

Abundance Accomplishment Act Actualization Adventure Alarm Clocks Attachment Audio Authentic Autobiography Aware Awareness Balance Be You Beginning Belief Bill Russel Brilliant Buddhist Busy Cause Certainty Character Chess Chit Compassion Compensation Consistency Conversations Creativity Critics Dance Dark Death Decision Demand Despair Destroy Determination Development Differences Discipline Divine Within Doubt Education Ego Enjoy Enlightenment Exciting Explore Express Extraordinary Faith Fearlessness Feel Feelings Fire Follow Forest Forgive Freedom Friendship Fruitarian General Give Goal Great Greatness Habit Healing Health Heart Hero Humility Idea Ideals Ignorant Imitation Individuality Interconnectedness Invincible Iq Joy Judgment Kind Language Learn Life Management Mastery Moment Mood Motion Music Mystery New Opinion Outcome Overload Passion Past Patience Perseverance Persist Plans Polish Possibility Powerlesness Preparation Pride Proactive Problem Progress Psychology of Money Reading Relationship Relationships Religious Resistance Right Ritual Rules Rust Self-reliance Serve Simplicity Slavery Sleep Society Stoicism Stop Strength Student Stupidity Support Sweat Thought Trail Train Truth Understand Values Virtue Vitality War Water Weak Willpower Within Work

Quotes by Teachers

Byron Katie T. Harv Eker Wallace D. Wattles Ralph Waldo Emerson Unknown Susan Jeffers Seneca Carlos Castaneda Napoleon Hill Friedrich Nietzsche Albert Einstein Mevlana Rumi Timothy Ferriss Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Walter Russell Marlo Morgan Esther & Jerry Hicks John Eliot, Ph.D. Joseph Campbell Russell Simmons Henry David Thoreau Paulo Coelho Confucius Andrew Cohen Vernon Howard David Emerald Lao-tzu William Blake Winston Churchill Wayne Dyer Marianne Williamson Norman Vincent Peale Mark Twain Leo Buscaglia David McCullough Yoda William James Donny Deutsch John F. Kennedy Thomas Jefferson Buddha James Allen Nikola Tesla Aristotle Viktor Frankl Calvin Coolidge John W. Gardner W. Clement Stone Brian Tracy Chinese Proverb Aristotle Onassis Tony Robbins Connie Zweig Roger McDonald Krishna Anais Nin Ayn Rand Robin Sharma Oscar Wilde Dan Millman Ben Stein Eric Butterworth Nido Qubein Jeanette Winterson Bodhidharma Viktor E. Frankl J. Balfour Steven Pressfield Peter Drucker Oprah Winfrey Anthony de Mello John Steinbeck James Cameron Anonymous La Rochefoucauld Luis Villalobos John Dooner Leo Tolstoy Goethe Henry Ward Beecher Epicurus Ernest Hemingway Carl Schurz Jesus Reverend Ike W. Somerset Maugham Denzel Washington Stephen Vincent Benet Steven Wright Colin Wilson Max Lucado Robert Fritz Brian Klemmer David Deida Gretta Brooker Palmer Thomas Paine Junior Murchison Brendan Brazier Ron Popeil Vince Lombardi The Bible Morihei Ueshiba Goncourt John Wooden Epictetus Zenrin Henry Ford Greek Proverb Anne Frank Alexander Graham Bell Meister Eckhart Plato Bob Proctor Thich Nhat Hanh Henri Frederich Amiel Dalai Lama Lynne McTaggart William Purkey Gail Sheehy Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Greer Garson Ross Perot George Washington Carver Marilyn Ferguson Charles Lindbergh Michelangelo Harry Houdini Tom Peters Mother Theresa Dr. Deidre Lovecky e.e. cummings Dan Sullivan Benjamin Franklin Plautus Henry Van Dyke Johann Wolfgang von-Goethe FM Alexander Ali St Augustine Niccolo Machiavelli Vergil Alvin Toffler Ekhart Tolle Danny Black Michael S. Josephson Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. Eric Hoffer Xenocrates Benjamin Mays Lin Yutang

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