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:-

  • With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.

    ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

    Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Master, Faith, Strong, Invincible

  • 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

    Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

  • Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?

    ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Abraham Lincoln, Yin, Destroy, Friend, Friends

  • All the practices — sitting, Big Mind, and so on — are skillful means, all for the purpose of building character, consciousness, and awareness so that our functioning is truly coming from wisdom and compassion.

    ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

  • Don’t get me wrong. I am by no means saying that you can’t be both wealthy and happy. But whether you have a seven-figure trust fund or a pile of unpaid bills on your kitchen table, the path to freedom requires that you focus more on your inner life than on your outer financial circumstances

    ~ Brent Kessel quotes from It’s Not About the Money

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Quotes by Teachers

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