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 awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Non-attachment, Wise

• "There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do."

  ~ Soichiro Honda quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Life, Strong

• That's the thing about U2. The band always feels like it's coming, never that it's arrived.

  ~ Bono quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: U2

• Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: God, Genius, Act, Power, Great, Deeds, Soul, Serve

• If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, It was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Unknown, Now

More Random Quotes

Quotes by Topic

Accomplishment Achievement Act I Anger Appreciation Attitude Attraction Authentic Awakening Balance Basketball Becoming Beginning Bill Gates Bill Russel Blood Body Breakthroughs Business Cave Challenge Cling Combat Compassion Competition Compulsion Confident Consciousness Consequences Contentment Contradict Create Creativity Death Desire Despair Destroy Development Doing Effectiveness Enlightenment Evolution Examine Excel Explore Faces Faith Fate Fearless Feminine Fly Forest Forgive Forgiveness Fruit Fulfillment General Genius Goal Goals Healing Heat Helplessness Heroism Honesty Hope Humor Idea Inspire Instrument Intensity Intent Intention Iq Journal Judgment Jump Kind Kindness Latin Laughter Leader Lies Love Luck Management Miracles Mirror Moderation Motion Motivation Muscles Mystery Mystic Overachievement Parents Peace Perseverance Persona Piano Plans Poor Possibilities Potential Poverty Power Powerlesness Preparation Pretence Pride Principles Progress Psychology of Money Purpose Question Rapture Reaction Resistance Risk Roman Schedule Self-awareness Self-reliance Shame Skill Skin Slavery Smart Solution Soul Stall States Vs. Stages Stoicism Stretch Suffer Support Symphony Tags Takers Teach Thought Training Virtue Warrior Waste Willpower Wisdom Wise World Zen

Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson Unknown Byron Katie Wallace D. Wattles T. Harv Eker Susan Jeffers Walter Russell Carlos Castaneda Mevlana Rumi Timothy Ferriss Albert Einstein Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Dale Carnegie Napoleon Hill Russell Simmons Joseph Campbell Winston Churchill Mark Twain Dan Millman Marlo Morgan Wayne Dyer Paulo Coelho James Allen Friedrich Nietzsche Roger McDonald John Wooden Robert Cooper Confucius Henry David Thoreau Epictetus Robert Frost Mitch Albom Vernon Howard John Eliot, Ph.D. Aristotle Peter Drucker William James José Silva and Burt Goldman William Shakespeare Carl Jung Esther & Jerry Hicks Benjamin Disraeli Socrates David McCullough Robin Sharma David Emerald Oscar Wilde Neale Donald Walsch Arthur Schopenhauer John Dewey Mahatma Gandhi Leo Buscaglia Martin Luther King, Jr. Leonardo da Vinci Thomas Troward Eric Butterworth John W. Gardner Will Durant Frank Herbert Krishna Donny Deutsch Helen Keller Henry Ford Martin Luther King Jr. Bill Gates Dagmar O'Connor Jesus Andre Gide Maxwell Maltz Guy Lombardo Italian Proverb Michael Gelb William Faulkner Hugh Prather Bodhidharma Dr. Deidre Lovecky Richard Bach Mary Schmich Ernest Holmes Dan Sullivan Les Miserables Igor Stravinsky Marianne Williamson William Temple Robert F. Kennedy Dr. David Hawkins Mother Theresa Andrew Cohen Albert Camus J. Balfour Colin Powell Shirley MacLaine John Ruskin John Firman Robert Fulghum Nigerian Proverb Rabindranath Tagore Anon New York Times Robert Fritz Ralph Lauren George Chapman Walt Disney William Blake Thomas Watson, Sr. Michael S. Josephson Samuel Goldwyn Daniel Cohen Norman Cousins Elaine Myers Lao-tzu Michelangelo Jean Jacques Rousseau Andrew Carnegie William Purkey Katherine Paterson Martin Seligman Neil Postman Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Franklin D. Roosevelt Tim Sanders Cicero Kahlil Gibran Anonymous Auguste Rodin Henry Ward Beecher Vaclav Havel John Donne John Muir Irish Proverb Jim Rohn Rollo May Aeschylus Arthur L. Williams Sigmund Romberg John Dooner Robert Allen Brian Tracy Bruce Lee Frederick Douglas Walt Whitman St. Francis of Assisi Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. George Washington Carver Christian D. Larson Herbert Spencer George Bernard Shaw Patty Hansen Fyodor Dostoevski Lucille S. Harper Barbara Sher