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:-

  • As you start to see the possibilities in the impossible, you will begin to see that the world works “perfectly.” You can find reason and purpose in everything—if you open your mind to it.

    ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

    Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Purpose, Work, Mind, Reason, Perfect, Impossible, World, Will, Feel, Possibilities

  • If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.

    ~ Jonathan Winters quotes

  • A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

    ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

    Famous Quotes on: Action, Warrior

  • As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.”

    ~ Buddha quotes

  • We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

    ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

    Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Intimacy, Death, Doubt

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Byron Katie Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers Unknown Albert Einstein Seneca Walter Russell Friedrich Nietzsche John Eliot, Ph.D. Mevlana Rumi Paulo Coelho Wayne Dyer Carlos Castaneda Joseph Campbell Wallace D. Wattles David Emerald Dan Millman Mitch Albom Ayn Rand Donny Deutsch Martin Luther King, Jr. James Allen Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Esther & Jerry Hicks Robin Sharma The Dalai Lama Oscar Wilde Roger McDonald Jesus Napoleon Hill Tony Robbins George Bernard Shaw Abraham Maslow Thich Nhat Hanh Marianne Williamson Neal Donald Walsch Plato Socrates Morihei Ueshiba Vernon Howard David McCullough Rollo May Marlo Morgan Thomas Carlyle Jim Rohn Marcus Aurelius Richard Bach Will Rogers Nikola Tesla Thomas A. Edison Bodhidharma Anthony de Mello Buddha Dale Carnegie Dalai Lama Russell Simmons Abraham Lincoln Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Samuel Goldwyn Harry Truman Erich Fromm Peter Drucker T.S. Elliot Jim Bishop Dr. Samuel Johnson Viktor Frankl Alicia Barnhart Angelina Jolie Alexander Smith From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730 John W. Newbern Richard Bergland e.e. cummings Jerome P. Fleishman Robert Frost Bono Ralf W. Sockman William Temple Robert H. Schuller Booker T. Washington Francis Bacon Tom Stoppard Don Dunning Teddy Roosevelt Kahlil Gibran José Silva and Burt Goldman Lucille Ball Maxwell Maltz Franklin D. Roosevelt Krishna Ken Wilber Bruce Lee Sun Tzu Buckminster Fuller George Shinn Sean O'Casey Leo Buscaglia Thomas Merton Apple Computers Don Byas Neil Postman Ron Popeil Basho Sydney Smith Leonardo da Vinci Chinese Proverb Dr. Valerie Hunt Robert Browning Confucius John Keating Winston Churchill Frederick Wilcox Madame de Stael Stan Dale Aaron Copland Elizabeth Kubler Ross Laura Huxley Jean de La Bruyere Rene Descartes Zig Ziglar Walt Disney William James Nigerian Proverb Albert Schweitzer Og Mandino George Lichtenberg Richard Koch Michelangelo Jean Sibelius Meister Eckhart Stephen Covey John Quincy Adams Ann Landers Henry Ford Whitney Young Charles F. Kettering Guy Kawasaki Charles Kingsley Mae West Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ken Blanchard William Arthur Ward Nancy Mitford Joubert B.C. Forbes Dr. Montague Rabindranath Tagore Martin Seligman Katherine Mansfield Yo Ki

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