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:-

  • Nobody can do it for you.

    ~ Ralph Cordiner quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Body

  • This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment.

    ~ Andrew Cohen quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Spirituality, Enlightenment

  • Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

    ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

    Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Live, Katie, Act

  • Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it…that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

    ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Fear, Rest, Doing, Discover

  • For every person with the stuff, the one out of a hundred who goes to a rarefied place is the one who says, "why not me?" and goes for it.

    ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong, Never in Doubt

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie Susan Jeffers Wallace D. Wattles T. Harv Eker Unknown Timothy Ferriss Albert Einstein Winston Churchill Seneca David McCullough James Allen Mevlana Rumi Carlos Castaneda Abraham Maslow Confucius Marlo Morgan Mark Twain Leo Buscaglia Napoleon Hill Friedrich Nietzsche Lao-tzu Esther & Jerry Hicks Buddha Russell Simmons Henry David Thoreau Stephen R. Covey Walter Russell Aristotle Joseph Campbell John F. Kennedy Tony Robbins Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Paulo Coelho Roger McDonald Chinese Proverb Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel John Eliot, Ph.D. Irish Proverb Thomas Jefferson Robert Frost George Bernard Shaw Donny Deutsch Vernon Howard Ayn Rand Bob Proctor Benjamin Disraeli David Emerald Martin Luther King, Jr. Harry Truman Carl Jung Sydney Smith Dalai Lama Epicurus Richard Bach Colin Powell Viktor Frankl Oprah Winfrey Anne Lamott Voltaire Brian Klemmer Cardinal de Retz The Essene Gospel of Peace Helen Keller F. Scott Fitzgerald Steven Wright The Upanishads Leonardo da Vinci Virginia Woolf Ray Bradbury Mandukya Upanishad Bodhidharma Michael McGriffy M.D. Abraham Hicks Carl Sagan Eric Lungaard Gay & Katie Hendricks George Washington Kaleel Jamison Connie Zweig Dr. Seuss Igor Stravinsky General W.J. Slim Bertolt Brecht Tawni O'Dell Brahma Kumaris Joubert St. Francis De Sales Johann Kaspar Lavater Vergil Wilhelm Stekel Ernest Holmes Joseph Hopkinson Oscar Wilde Ken Blanchard Maxwell Maltz e.e. cummings Irwin Edman Henri Frederich Amiel Heraclitus Bill Gates Stephen Covey Aldous Huxley Nancy Reagan Morihei Ueshiba Arthur C. Clarke John Wooden Erica Jong Gandhi Henry Van Dyke Guy Kawasaki Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Samuel Johnson Anonymous Kahlil Gibran Stephen Leacock Warren Zevon William Saroyan Thomas Watson, Sr. Dorothy Parker Henri Bergson Ken Auletta Fast Company Magazine Daniel G. Amen Steve Jobs Dan Siegel Sri Aurobindo Walt Whitman The Bible James Baldwin John W. Gardner Jesus Christ Robert Henri Pablo Picasso Sonia Johnson Stan Dale Samuel Goldwyn Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard William James Mary Baker Eddy Nikola Tesla Don Miguel Ruiz Fyodor Dostoevski John Steinbeck Dr. John Demartini The Dalai Lama Anthony de Mello Richard M. DeVos Brian Tracy W. Somerset Maugham

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