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:-

  • A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

    ~ Nancy Reagan quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Water, Strong

  • There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

    ~ Marilyn Vos Savant quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Courage

  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence (aka Areté) then, is not an act, but a habit.

    ~ Aristotle quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Action, Habit

  • Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it…

    ~ Buddha quotes

  • There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory…everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.

    ~ Neal Donald Walsch quotes from Conversations with God

    Famous Quotes on: God, Purpose, Experience, Think, Live, Life, Soul

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson Unknown T. Harv Eker Wallace D. Wattles Byron Katie Seneca Walter Russell Napoleon Hill Friedrich Nietzsche Carlos Castaneda Susan Jeffers David Emerald Marlo Morgan Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel John Eliot, Ph.D. Albert Einstein Mevlana Rumi Tony Robbins Paulo Coelho Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Robin Sharma Stephen R. Covey James Allen Dan Millman Winston Churchill John F. Kennedy Dale Carnegie Joseph Campbell Roger McDonald Leo Buscaglia Jim Rohn William Shakespeare Nikola Tesla Russell Simmons Timothy Ferriss Donny Deutsch Buddha Ayn Rand Henry David Thoreau William Blake Francis Bacon Epictetus Gandhi Franklin D. Roosevelt E.B. White Chinese Proverb Aristotle e.e. cummings Brian Tracy Andrew Cohen George Bernard Shaw Robert Cooper Confucius Aldous Huxley Wayne Dyer Margaret Mead Jesus Helen Keller Teddy Roosevelt Buckminster Fuller Abraham Maslow Marianne Williamson John Wooden Bruce Lee Albert Schweitzer Thomas A. Edison Lao-tzu Irish Proverb Ramana Maharshi Oliver Wendell Holmes Robert F. Kennedy Teilhard de Chardin Dr. Deidre Lovecky George Santayana David McCullough Oscar Wilde George Chapman Malcolm Forbes Heinrich Zimmer Dr. Gary Arthur Anais Nin Shawn Phillips Robert Joss H. Ross Perot Harold Gray Gay & Katie Hendricks Benjamin Disraeli Rainer Maria Rilke Colin Wilson George F. Nordenholt Phillips Brooks David Gergen Albert Camus Proverb Steve Pavlina Donna Cardillo, R.N. Neal A. Maxwell Werner Erhard Ernest Hemingway Tyon Edwards John Adams Will Durant Christopher Morley Bob Packwood Elizabeth Kenny Peter Senge Mike Maples Simon de Beauvoir William Rigley, Jr. B.C. Forbes Mother Teresa Esther & Jerry Hicks Stephen Leacock Samuel Johnson Edward Gibbon The Dalai Lama Jack Welch Benjamin Franklin Henry J. Kaiser Frank Herbert Dolly Parton Michel Eyquem de Montaigne The Bible Harriet Martineau Percy Ross Nancy Reagan Ken Wilber Thomas Jefferson Arthur Koestler Plato Sophia Loren Eric Butterworth Heraclitus American Heritage Dictionary Frank Pittman III Jules Henry Branch Rickey Nelson Mandella Freud Linus Pauling Anne Frank John Firman Vernon Howard Herbert Bayard Swope Connie Zweig Jose Ortega y Gasset Mary Kay Ash Will Rogers Nido Qubein Jean de La Bruyere Morihei Ueshiba

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