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:-

  • I am totally independent of the good or bad opinion of others

    ~ Deepak Chopra quotes

  • Progress comesTo those whoTrain and train;Reliance on secret techniquesWill get you nowhere.

    ~ Morihei Ueshiba quotes from The Art of Peace

    Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

  • May you be in heaven 1/2 hour before the devil knows you're dead.

    ~ Irish Proverb quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Evil, Now

  • A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than anything else.

    ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

    Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Life, Warrior

  • It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

    ~ St. Francis of Assisi quotes

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie Susan Jeffers Unknown Wallace D. Wattles Paulo Coelho Napoleon Hill Mevlana Rumi Friedrich Nietzsche Seneca Tony Robbins Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Vernon Howard William James Carlos Castaneda Walter Russell Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Aristotle Wayne Dyer Roger McDonald Joseph Campbell Abraham Lincoln Krishna Albert Einstein Abraham Maslow Timothy Ferriss Marlo Morgan Dale Carnegie Anonymous William Shakespeare Jim Rohn Carl Jung Oscar Wilde Confucius Marilyn Vos Savant Robert Cooper David McCullough Robin Sharma Marcus Aurelius Milton Friedman Mark Twain Oliver Wendell Holmes Kahlil Gibran John F. Kennedy Robert Frost Alexander Graham Bell Harry Truman Anthony de Mello Ayn Rand Napoleon Bonaparte Henry David Thoreau Aldous Huxley Samuel Johnson William Blake Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Yoda Mitch Albom John Eliot, Ph.D. Brian Tracy Chinese Proverb Jesus Viktor Frankl Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Steve Jobs Charles Coonradt Terry Laughlin Dagmar O'Connor Ray Kroc Congo Proverb Eknath Easwaran Jameson Frank Tyon Edwards Woodrow Wilson Somerset Maugham The Dalai Lama Steven Wright get author Julia Louis Woodruff Voltaire Patty Hansen George Orwell Malcolm X Walt Whitman Abraham Hicks Elbert Hubbard Neil Postman Arthur L. Williams N. Eldon Tanner Nido Qubein Daniel Goleman Dalai Lama Eric Hoffer Sal Sorbera Bruce Jenner Alexandre Dumas Maurice Maeterlinck Gay & Katie Hendricks E.B. White Christopher Morley Richard Bergland Dolly Parton Dwight D. Eisenhower John W. Newbern Lynne McTaggart Arnold Glascow Louis Nizer Martin Seligman Ernest Hemingway Maya Angelou Martin Luther King, Jr. Henry James Kent Nerburn Gail Godwin Forrest Gump Niels Bohr June Jordan José Silva and Burt Goldman Dr. Seuss Sir John Hunt Esther & Jerry Hicks The Bible Albert Schweitzer Bruce Lee Bhagavad-Gita Rosabeth Moss Cantor Norman Cousins Plotinus Jeanette Winterson Jean Jacques Rousseau Robert Goizueta Buddha William Gibson St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney Francis Bacon Herbert Otto Franklyn Broude Richard Bach John Keats Mexican Proverb Jose Ortega y Gasset Leo Tolstoy Henry Ward Beecher Neale Donald Walsch Morihei Ueshiba Jim Collins Lucius Annaeus Seneca Mother Theresa Donny Deutsch Jules Henry 50 Cent

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