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 economic race should not be arranged so everyone arrives at the finish line at the same time but so that everyone starts at the starting line at the same time.

    ~ Milton Friedman quotes

  • It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

    ~ Cicero quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Character, Act

  • If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

    ~ Anita Roddick quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Think, Act, Try

  • I believe negative thinking is like having measles of the mind. Instead of itching, you get bitching; instead of scratching, you get bashing; instead of irritation, you get frustration. Now, do you really want to be close to people like that?

    ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

    Self-Development Quotes on: Think, Thinking, Secret, Mind, Rust, Now, Believe, People

  • Get excited about your problems. Don't hope to get to a place where you have no problems. Create higher quality problems!

    ~ Tony Robbins quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Tony Robbins, Create

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie Susan Jeffers T. Harv Eker Unknown Wallace D. Wattles Dan Millman Walter Russell Mevlana Rumi Carlos Castaneda Timothy Ferriss Seneca Albert Einstein Friedrich Nietzsche Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel John Eliot, Ph.D. Buddha David Emerald Confucius James Allen Napoleon Hill William James Dale Carnegie Morihei Ueshiba Donny Deutsch Vernon Howard Gay & Katie Hendricks Russell Simmons Paulo Coelho Tony Robbins Jim Rohn Peter Drucker Marlo Morgan Norman Vincent Peale David McCullough Leo Buscaglia Benjamin Franklin Winston Churchill Thomas Jefferson Henry David Thoreau Chinese Proverb Ernest Holmes Eric Butterworth Epictetus Neal Donald Walsch Samuel Johnson Bertrand Russell Henry Wadsworth Longfellow George Washington Anais Nin Esther & Jerry Hicks Henry Ford Carl Jung Heraclitus Dalai Lama Lao-tzu Abraham Maslow Samuel Goldwyn Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi e.e. cummings Robert Cooper Anthony de Mello Abraham Lincoln Leonardo da Vinci Doug Larson Aldous Huxley José Silva and Burt Goldman James Russell Lowell Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. Martin Luther King, Jr. Daniel Goleman Robin Sharma Robert Allen Bono Publilius Syrus Thomas A. Edison Morpheus Connie Zweig Arthur Koestler Viktor E. Frankl John W. Gardner Oscar Wilde Aristotle Dale Dauten William Ellery Channing Pablo Picasso Gandhi Eric Hoffer Anne Lamott Rainer Maria Rilke Wayne Dyer Danny Black Sam Wyly Sal Sorbera J. Paul Getty Viktor Frankl Martin Seligman Ingvar Kamprad G.E. Lessing Dr. Petrie Arnold Glascow Japanese Proverb Marianne Williamson Elizabeth Kubler Ross W.H. Murray John Dooner Warren Zevon Irish Proverb Sydney Smith Eleanor Roosevelt Bob Packwood General George S. Patton Neale Donald Walsch Aristotle Onassis Elizabeth Berg Albert Camus Robert Frost Walt Disney FM Alexander Elbert Hubbard Helen Eustis Anatole France Thomas J. Watson Bertolt Brecht Jameson Frank Joseph Hopkinson Mary Baker Eddy Baruch Spinoza John Donne Robert Orben Irwin Edman Leighton R. Buckminster Fuller Leo Tolstoy Dorothy Parker Krishna Yajur Veda B.C. Forbes Oprah St. Paul Earl G. Graves John Muir Milton Erickson William Temple Milton Friedman Ray Bradbury Cowper Maimonides Andrew Cohen John Shedd Will Rogers Georgia O'Keeffe

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