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:-

  • Don’t play in someone else’s universe. Define your own.

    ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

    Self-Development Quotes on: Universe

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge.

    ~ Albert Einstein quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Knowledge

  • Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

    ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

    Self-Development Quotes on: Business, Decide, Death, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Act, Follow, Good, Life, Relationship, Achieve, Win

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

    ~ Bono quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: U2

  • There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

    ~ Michael S. Josephson quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Ethics, Business

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Susan Jeffers Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie Unknown Albert Einstein Timothy Ferriss Mevlana Rumi Walter Russell Wallace D. Wattles John Eliot, Ph.D. Seneca Confucius Robert Cooper Napoleon Hill Vernon Howard Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Roger McDonald Carlos Castaneda Friedrich Nietzsche David Emerald Donny Deutsch Abraham Maslow Aristotle Mark Twain William James Henry David Thoreau Wayne Dyer Leo Buscaglia Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Oscar Wilde Joseph Campbell Elbert Hubbard Benjamin Franklin Samuel Johnson Tony Robbins Dan Millman Robin Sharma Eric Butterworth Dale Carnegie Kahlil Gibran William Shakespeare Andrew Cohen Deepak Chopra Peter Senge Ayn Rand Bertrand Russell Paulo Coelho Rudyard Kipling Gay & Katie Hendricks Marlo Morgan Connie Zweig James Allen Napoleon Bonaparte Antoine de Saint-Exupery Stephen R. Covey Winston Churchill Buddha George Bernard Shaw Esther & Jerry Hicks Francis Bacon La Rochefoucauld Abraham Lincoln Russell Simmons Maya Angelou Irish Proverb Thich Nhat Hanh The Bible Steve Pavlina Albert Camus Anthony Robbins Jack Welch William Blake Peter Ueberroth Mahatma Gandhi Heraclitus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Eleanor Roosevelt Zig Ziglar Joseph Hopkinson Shirley MacLaine Thomas Edison Patrick Delany Satchel Paige Guillaume Apollinaire Viktor Frankl Rosa Parks Dee Hock Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Helen Keller Henry Ward Beecher Jim Rohn Tom J. Connelly A Course in Miracles Ray Bradbury Mary Kay Ash Rusty Berkus James Russell Lowel José Silva and Burt Goldman Chuck Gallozi Ludwig van Beethoven Martin Rutte John Quincy Adams Bernard M. Baruch Thomas S. Monson Andre Gide Richard Koch Rollo May Lewis Carroll Mark Victor Hansen Jimi Hendrix Herman Melville Mitch Albom Lucille S. Harper Ken Blanchard Henri Bergson Mark Van Doren GK Chesterton Marilyn Vos Savant Frank Lloyd Wright Alfred Adler Heinrich Zimmer Lisa Kirk Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. Heinrich Heine Epictetus Ann McGee Cooper Stephen Bayne Barbara Kingsolver George Washington Tim Sanders Ekhart Tolle Georgia O'Keefe Norman Vincent Peale Tennessee Williams Ron Popeil Dian Fossey Jean-Claude Killy Meister Eckhart Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard Cicero Marilyn Ferguson Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Morpheus John Wooden Anthony de Mello Frank Herbert Martin Luther King, Jr. T.S. Elliot Christopher Morley Nikola Tesla

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