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:-

  • Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.

    ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

    Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Work

  • Love is not blind - it sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

    ~ Unknown quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Love, Unknown, Now, Will, Cause

  • Success is the proper utilization of failure.

    ~ Unknown quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Failure, Unknown, Fail, Now

  • In all my life I have never heard a mother call out to her child as she goes off to school, “Take a lot of risks today, darling.” She is more likely to convey to her child, “Be careful, darling.” This “Be careful” carries with it a double message: ”The world is really dangerous out there” … and … “you won’t be able to handle it.”

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

    Famous Quotes on: Fear, Risk, Life, World, Age, Feel, Anger

  • If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

    ~ Elizabeth Bowen quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Life

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Susan Jeffers Ralph Waldo Emerson T. Harv Eker Byron Katie Timothy Ferriss Seneca Unknown Carlos Castaneda Wallace D. Wattles Mevlana Rumi Henry David Thoreau Napoleon Hill Friedrich Nietzsche John Eliot, Ph.D. Albert Einstein Walter Russell Joseph Campbell Dan Millman Vernon Howard Mark Twain Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Dale Carnegie James Allen Abraham Maslow Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Aristotle Stephen R. Covey Oscar Wilde David Emerald Martin Luther King, Jr. William Shakespeare Viktor Frankl Antoine de Saint-Exupery Jim Rohn Oliver Wendell Holmes Donny Deutsch Aldous Huxley Tim Sanders Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Albert Camus Lao-tzu Wayne Dyer Edward Gibbon Luis Villalobos Paulo Coelho Brian Tracy William Blake Mae West Abraham Lincoln Richard Bach Leonardo da Vinci Winston Churchill George Bernard Shaw Yoda Esther & Jerry Hicks William James Jean Jacques Rousseau Saint-Exupery Maurice Maeterlinck Calvin Coolidge Rita Rudner Andre Gide Lou Holtz Louise Hay La Rochefoucauld Ann Landers Heinrich Zimmer Richard Paul Evans Alan Kay Mahatma Gandhi Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Lilly Tomlin Donald Calne John Gardner Nikola Tesla Forrest Gump Brock Chisholm Gail Sheehy Richard Koch Josh Billings George Washington Henry Ward Breecher Richard Branson Don Miguel Ruiz Saint Augustine Irish Proverb Marshall Thurber Ron Popeil Henry Van Dyke Nancy Reagan Steve Alford Golda Meir Percy Ross George F. Nordenholt Nigerian Proverb Maximus June Jordan Johann Kaspar Lavater Linus Pauling Dr. William Mayo William Jennings Bryan The Bible Fast Company Magazine Yogi Berra Samuel Goldwyn Gay & Katie Hendricks Ray Kroc Patty Hansen Connie Zweig Ludwig van Beethoven John Keating Eileen Caddy Ray Bradbury Obi-Wan Kenobi Joe Paterno Sir John Hunt Barbara De Angelis. Ph.D. John Ruskin Jacob Bronowski Steven Pressfield Archimedes Kahlil Gibran Krishna B.C. Forbes Mitch Albom J. W. Teal Henry Ward Beecher John Donne Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Xenocrates Walt Whitman Benjamin Disraeli Napoleon Bonaparte Cardinal de Retz William Saroyan Margaret Mead Don Marquis Albert Schweitzer Anthony de Mello Theodore Geisel Voltaire Swami Chinmayananda Margaret Atwood G.B. Burgin W. Somerset Maugham Richard P. Feynman Theodore Roosevelt Katharine Graham Hugo von Hofmannsthal Epictetus

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