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 willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

    ~ Blood of the Martyr quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Live, Power, Endure, Now, Will, Blood

  • If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!!?

    ~ Deepak Chopra quotes

  • Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy; the bad points of the other I correct in myself.

    ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

    Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning

  • It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief.

    ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

    Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

  • As Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, and supporter of the Tibetan people, “We must understand that there can be no life without risk—and when your spirit is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

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

    Famous Quotes on: Leadership, Risk, Life, Potential, Understand, Spirit, People, Strong, Support

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson T. Harv Eker Susan Jeffers Byron Katie Unknown Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell Carlos Castaneda Seneca Mevlana Rumi Albert Einstein John Eliot, Ph.D. Mark Twain Paulo Coelho Henry David Thoreau Joseph Campbell Stephen R. Covey Napoleon Hill Ayn Rand Friedrich Nietzsche Dan Millman Robert Cooper Thomas Edison Jesus William Shakespeare Socrates Wayne Dyer Timothy Ferriss Chinese Proverb Neal Donald Walsch Marianne Williamson Rollo May Russell Simmons Confucius Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Aristotle Roger McDonald Marlo Morgan Henry Ward Beecher Marcus Aurelius James Allen Bruce Lee Frank Herbert Winston Churchill Mahatma Gandhi Oscar Wilde Thomas A. Edison Kahlil Gibran Donny Deutsch Andrew Cohen Abraham Maslow Gay & Katie Hendricks David McCullough Vernon Howard Steven Pressfield Baruch Spinoza David Emerald Leo Buscaglia Vince Lombardi John Adams Carl Jung Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Henry Ford Jack Gibb Wallace Wattles Thomas Merton Teilhard de Chardin Ralph Charell Ernest Holmes Benjamin Zander Oprah Shawn Phillips E. M. Gray Paul Hogan Dian Fossey Sue Patton Thoele Charles Kingsley Richard Bach Leo F. Buscaglia Peter Drucker Maxwell Maltz Emile Chartier Warren Buffett Herman Melville Francis Bacon Jack Kerouac Charles Chaplin Rainer Maria Rilke Helen Keller John Muir Shimon Peres Sri Ramakrishna Hugo von Hofmannsthal Richard Koch Aristotle Onassis Lao-tzu Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard Fortune Cookie Benjamin Franklin Max Wertheimer Malcolm S. Forbes John Keats Jim Rohn Connie Zweig Dorothy Parker Dr. Karl Menninger Saint-Exupery Eric Butterworth Epicurus Bruce Jenner Decimus Magnus Ausonius Doug Weed Sal Sorbera Charles Coonradt GK Chesterton Nadia Boulanger Plato Calvin Coolidge G.E. Lessing Patty Hansen St. Francis De Sales Waren G. Bennis Paula Poundstone Milton Erickson Donald Calne Ali Epictetus F. Scott Fitzgerald Mitch Albom Paul Saffo Johann Kaspar Lavater Eric Lungaard Mae West Dale Carnegie Martin Luther King, Jr. Miguel de Cervantes Thomas Fuller Alfred Adler Plotinus Obi-Wan Kenobi Michael Jordan Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel William E. Hickson Bernard M. Baruch Voltaire J. Balfour Robert Kiyosaki Ekhart Tolle Herbert Spencer Alberto Salazar Chofetz Chaim

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