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:-

  • Criticize by creating.

    ~ Michelangelo quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Criticize, Angel

  • You will wake up every morning with a limitless reservoir of energy and enthusiasm. All your thoughts will be focused on your definite objective.. You won’t have time to waste time. Valuable mental power will, therefore, not be wasted on trifling thoughts. You will automatically erase the worry habit and become far more effective and productive. Interestingly, you will also have a deep sense of inner harmony, as if you are somehow being guided to realize your mission. It is a wonderful feeling.

    ~ Robin Sharma quotes

  • You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.

    ~ Jim Rohn quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Jim Rohn, Becoming

  • To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

    ~ e.e. cummings quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Love

  • She knew she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

    ~ Ayn Rand quotes from The Fountainhead

    Self-Development Quotes on: Ayn Rand, New, The Fountainhead

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers Byron Katie Unknown Wallace D. Wattles Friedrich Nietzsche Timothy Ferriss Dale Carnegie Paulo Coelho William Shakespeare Seneca Russell Simmons Henry David Thoreau Roger McDonald Vernon Howard Albert Einstein Walter Russell Carlos Castaneda Dan Millman Aristotle Leo Buscaglia Mark Twain Rollo May Buddha James Allen Marlo Morgan Robert Cooper Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Stephen R. Covey David McCullough David Emerald Thomas Edison Epictetus Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Confucius Napoleon Hill John Eliot, Ph.D. Antoine de Saint-Exupery W. Somerset Maugham Anne Lamott Mevlana Rumi George Bernard Shaw Mother Theresa Esther & Jerry Hicks Ernest Holmes Connie Zweig Henry Ford Mitch Albom Wayne Dyer Winston Churchill Krishna Eric Butterworth Abraham Lincoln Chinese Proverb Joseph Campbell Benjamin Franklin Gay & Katie Hendricks Irish Proverb Anonymous Jean-Claude Killy Ray Bradbury The Talmud Tom J. Connelly Richard Koch Warren Zevon Publilius Syrus Augustine Dave Barry Anthony de Mello Emile Chartier Lynne McTaggart Rita Mae Brown G.B. Burgin Donald Trump Nelson Mandella Frank Herbert Charles Coonradt John F. Kennedy Viktor Frankl Michael McGriffy M.D. Thomas A. Edison Rainer Maria Rilke Sir Winston Churchill Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Charles Schwab John Donne Zenrin Nigerian Proverb Dagmar O'Connor Robert Fritz Jeanette Winterson Marianne Williamson Thomas H. Huxley Maurice Maeterlinck Arthur C. Clarke Alfred Adler Will Rogers Mahatma Gandhi Buckminster Fuller Luis Villalobos Nido Qubein Bill Gates Richard Bach Bodhidharma John Wooden Dr. Seuss Morihei Ueshiba Max Lucado Tom Stoppard Pascal Phillips Brooks Brian Adams Ken Auletta Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pablo Picasso Helen Keller Mandukya Upanishad Desmond Tutu Andrew Carnegie Pierre Corneille Harry Truman Werner Erhard Lou Holtz Martin Seligman Robert Allen Vaclav Havel Thomas Jefferson Japanese Proverb Sherry Lansing Steven Wright Ira Gershwin Cyrus Curtis Meister Eckhart Frank Wilczek Eliot Spitzer Oscar Wilde Robert J. Ringer Shimon Peres J. Paul Getty Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Bill Blackman Erma Bombeck Leo Tolstoy Niels Bohr John Keating Richard Branson Georgia O'Keefe Franklin D. Roosevelt Anon Harry Houdini

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