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:-

  • Enthusiasm moves the world.

    ~ J. Balfour quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Enthusiasm

  • Ask and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

    ~ The Bible quotes from Matthew 7:7-8

    Inspirational Quotes on: The Bible, Give, Receive

  • So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there’s no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.

    ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

  • Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."

    ~ Jim Rohn quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Belief

  • Act the part and you will become the part.

    ~ William James quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: William James, Act

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Quotes by Topic

Accept Act I Acting Action Actualization Adventure Affluence Age Aim Apple Athletes Attachment Audacity Authentic Autobiography Average Awakening Become Bedroom Better Bills Blame Brain Breath Breathing Buddhist Busy Cave Celebrate Change Character Chess Circumstance Cling Consequences Contribution Conversations Coward Create Creator Decision Deeds Demand Depression Desire Destroy Devotion Dictionary Doubt Doubts Dream Dreams Dying Economy Effect Emphasize Entrepreneur Experience Faces Fail Faith Fame Family Feminine Financial Fire Flow Forgive Forgiveness Greatness Hero Honesty Honor Humility Humor Idea Ideal Identity Impeccability Impossible Independence Inspirational Integral Intensity Intent Intimacy Invincible Joy Knowledge Laughter Leadership Master Meaningful Moment Motion Mystery Non-attachment Opinion Optimist Outcome Perfection Permanence Perspective Poor Positive Thinking Possibilities Potential Powerlesness Preparation Principles Projections Purpose Questions Reason Rent Results Rich Ridicule Ritual Roles Scream Self-awareness Self-reliance Simple Sleep Smile Solitude Soul Stall Strength Struggle Stupid Suffering Superior Takers Thank You Thought Torch Training Truth Unreasonable Values Victory Visualization Water Weakness Winner Within Worry Yin

Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson T. Harv Eker Unknown Byron Katie Seneca Wallace D. Wattles Joseph Campbell Walter Russell Susan Jeffers Timothy Ferriss Carlos Castaneda Tony Robbins Albert Einstein Mark Twain Abraham Maslow David Emerald Aristotle Roger McDonald Mevlana Rumi Dan Millman Robin Sharma William James Krishna Friedrich Nietzsche Andrew Cohen Marlo Morgan David McCullough Irish Proverb John Eliot, Ph.D. Anonymous The Dalai Lama Eric Butterworth Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Confucius Benjamin Franklin Henry David Thoreau Douglas MacArthur Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw Leo Buscaglia Henry Ford Abraham Lincoln Neal Donald Walsch Buddha Bruce Lee Leonardo da Vinci Winston Churchill Samuel Johnson William Shakespeare Rollo May Ayn Rand Mahatma Gandhi Andrew Carnegie Marilyn Vos Savant Wayne Dyer Thomas Jefferson Vernon Howard Epictetus FM Alexander Robert Cooper Yoda Lao-tzu Chinese Proverb Jim Rohn Marcus Aurelius Albert Camus Rainer Maria Rilke Jesus John Wooden Dale Carnegie Obi-Wan Kenobi Percy Ross Tim Sanders Aldous Huxley Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Dr. James Watson Kelsey Grammer Ben Stein Bruce Jenner Vida D. Scudder A Course in Miracles Malcolm S. Forbes Booker T. Washington William Blake E.M. Forster Kahlil Gibran Donna Cardillo, R.N. George Washington Carver Christopher Morley Henry Ward Beecher Bodhidharma Anne Frank Michael Gelb Pablo Picasso Barack Obama Peter F. Drucker Paulo Coelho Eleanor Roosevelt Sydney Smith John Ruskin Donny Deutsch Guillaume Apollinaire Baruch Spinoza Yo Ki Gabriel Garcia Marquez Eknath Easwaran Samuel Goldwyn Robert Henri Rene Descartes Mae West Neale Donald Walsch Benjamin Disraeli Dr. Herbert Benson Ernest Hemingway Malcolm Forbes Brian Tracy Stuart Wilde Voltaire Calvin Coolidge Articolo 31 Mother Theresa Tom J. Connelly Maximus Nike Shimon Peres Malcolm X 50 Cent Sidney J. Harris Anais Nin Pascal Ann Landers Jan Arden Henry Miller Walt Whitman Herbert Bayard Swope Niccolo Machiavelli e.e. cummings John Shedd Warren Buffett Charles Schwab Bob Proctor Jack Welch Viktor Frankl Robert F. Kennedy William Rigley, Jr. Mary-Elaine Jacobsen Robert Louis Stevenson Jack Kinder Basho B.C. Forbes Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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