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:-

  • Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

    ~ Confucius quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Change, Wise

  • Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

    ~ Buckminster Fuller quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Mistake, Give

  • There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who an do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can… give all our attention to the opportunity before us.

    ~ Mark Van Doren quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Attention, Give, Opportunity, People

  • We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

    ~ Vaclav Havel quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Dream

  • There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

    ~ Unknown quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Unknown, Soul, Control, Fate, Destiny, Now

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Quotes by Teachers

Susan Jeffers T. Harv Eker Unknown Ralph Waldo Emerson Wallace D. Wattles Byron Katie Seneca Albert Einstein Timothy Ferriss Friedrich Nietzsche Mevlana Rumi Carlos Castaneda Joseph Campbell Walter Russell Napoleon Hill Mark Twain Confucius Abraham Lincoln Abraham Maslow Henry David Thoreau James Allen Russell Simmons Vernon Howard Connie Zweig Tony Robbins Esther & Jerry Hicks Leonardo da Vinci David McCullough Buddha Thomas Edison Benjamin Franklin Dan Millman William James Steve Pavlina Buckminster Fuller Martin Luther King, Jr. William Shakespeare Paulo Coelho Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Wayne Dyer Marlo Morgan Roger McDonald Neal Donald Walsch George Bernard Shaw Ayn Rand John F. Kennedy Steve Jobs Plotinus Thomas Merton Chinese Proverb Donny Deutsch Morihei Ueshiba Robert Frost Jean de La Bruyere David Emerald Irish Proverb Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Krishna Frank Herbert John Eliot, Ph.D. Elbert Hubbard Aldous Huxley Henry Ward Beecher Donald Calne Alvin Toffler Bruce Jenner Billy Graham Samuel Johnson Paul "Bear" Bryant Kevin Sorbo Stephen King Mother Theresa Aristotle Onassis Marilyn Ferguson Sonia Johnson Jules Henry Heraclitus Ken Wilber Louise Hay Danish Proverb Niccolo Machiavelli Will Durant Brian Tracy Thomas J. Watson Neil Postman Samuel Goldwyn Goncourt Meister Eckhart Carl Sagan Michael S. Josephson E.M. Forster James Joyce Dr. Candace B. Pert Malcolm S. Forbes Plato Fortune Cookie Georgia O'Keefe Frank Lloyd Wright Walt Whitman Brahma Kumaris Alexandre Dumas William M. Thackeray John Dewey Will Rogers Dumbledore Mary Kay Ash Alan Kay Tim Sanders Nikola Tesla Tom Peters Bruce Lee Donald Trump Socrates Alexander Graham Bell Brian Adams Kahlil Gibran David Starr Jordan Ursala K. Guin Ali Baruch Spinoza Auguste Rodin Thomas Paine Ingrid Bergman Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sidney J. Harris Herman Melville Robin Sharma David Joseph Schwartz Sun Tzu Kelsey Grammer Les Miserables Mahatma Gandhi Sri Ramana Maharshi Dr. Montague Doug Firebaugh Oliver Wendell Holmes Hudson Newsletter Carl Schurz Charles Coonradt Henri Bergson Thomas H. Huxley Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu Charles J. Givens Nadia Boulanger George Chapman Barbara De Angelis Helen Keller Frank Wilczek Erica Jong Napoleon Bonaparte John W. Gardner

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